Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou reveals: We murdered prisoners with a technique the Justice Department never approved. Stripped naked. Chained to a bolt in the ceiling. Cell dropped to 50°F. Bucket of ice water every hour. They called it the cold cell. John Kiriakou, the man who first confirmed CIA waterboarding, describing what the agency actually did. Waterboarding gets the headlines. Abu Zubaydah’s heart stopped. They revived him so they could keep going. The cold cell was worse. People died from it. Then the cable came in: he didn’t survive the interrogation. Headquarters’ answer: dig a ditch behind the building. Sleep deprivation was authorized for 12 days. Studies say minds start breaking at day 7. Organs start shutting down at day 9. Cockroaches dumped into a coffin. Prisoners slammed into concrete until they had brain damage and couldn’t even stand trial. The law never changed. We did.