CIA interrogation called 'torture'

The  CIA's secret interrogation of the 14 "high-value detainees" it is holding amounted to torture, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.The charge is contained in published excerpts of the ICRC's 2006 internal report due to appear in the April 9 issue of the New York Review of Books. The ICRC report was obtained by Mark Danner, a journalist and professor at the University of California at Berkeley. The 14 prisoners were visited by the ICRC after they were moved from secret interrogation sites and prisons to Guantanamo Bay naval base in 2006.  Private access to the detainees, whose nationalities are not given, was granted by George Bush, the former US president. The neutral, Swiss-based ICRC is designated by the Geneva Conventions on warfare to visit prisoners of war to ensure countries respect their obligations under the 1949 accords.