From pages 51-54 (77-80, pdf) of the Torture Report, a model for “enhanced interrogation”:
Yes, the CIA created a “mind virus” to convince a Najjar that his “situation would continue to get worse” unless he “cooperated”.
(“Cooperated”: Such a sinister meaning attached to such a benign term.)
They thought through the use of torture they “had a reasonable chance at breaking” him.
Breaking: a much more appropriate term.
And which they accomplished. They broke a man. Through isolation and sleep deprivation and hooding and exposure and hanging they broke a man.
And this ” ‘became the model’ for handling other CIA detainees at DETENTION SITE COBALT.”
A model for how to break a human being.
AbsurdBeats 
too often lost in the debate by the players and the press is what becomes of a people who do these sorts of things; the torturers, their masters, and those of us who do nothing about it. maybe this is who we always were and now we know it or maybe we are losing something vital…
http://io9.com/pretty-much-every-u-s-demographic-group-believes-tortu-1672304427
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