Washington, August 24: CIA officers have threatened detainees with power drills and guns during interrogation to scare them into giving up information, according to a new report.
Sources familiar with the report told CNN that an edited version of the inspector-general’s report would be made public on Monday.
The report would be released following a federal judge’s decision to uphold an appeal by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The interrogations took place in the CIA’s secret prisons before 2006 under the administration of former President George W. Bush.
The Bush administration later moved all detainees from such facilities to the federal prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
According to the inspector-general’s report, interrogators also staged mock executions to try to frighten detainees into talking.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder is considering whether to appoint a prosecutor to investigate the abuses and put some CIA officers on trial.
The incidents described in the report are among the most extreme examples of enhanced interrogation techniques used by CIA interrogators.
While waterboarding and sleep deprivation were approved in legal memos from the Justice Department, other methods, such as using a power drill appear to have been improvised methods not specifically mentioned by the department.
—–Agencies