The Central Intelligence Agency took naked photographs of its detainees before sending them to be tortured by its partners in other countries, a report says.
The report, published on Monday by the Guardian, said the CIA took such photos to distance itself or remain insulated from the legal or political ramifications resulting from the brutal treatment of detainees in the hands of partner intelligence agencies.
The agency regarded it as necessary to strip the captives of clothing in order to document their physical condition in its custody so that it can distinguish them at that point from what they would subsequently experience in another agency’s custody.
The photos appear to be “very gruesome” as described by a former US official who had seen some of them.
Also, a medical and human rights expert called the practice “sexual humiliation,” while some other human rights campaigners regard it as a potential war crime.
In some photos, the detainees…