Here’s a little word collage, made largely by re-arranging chunks of a BBC article:

A heavily censored version of (a) 2004 internal Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report was released last year but in an almost meaningless form because so much remained classified.

A federal judge ordered more details to be released on Monday, after a legal challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union (Aclu).

Previously censored parts of (the) report into detainee abuse … show how electric drills and mock executions were used by CIA agents to elicit information, US media say.

According to US media, the report by the CIA’s inspector general details how a gun and an electric drill were brought into an interrogation session of suspected USS Cole bomber and alleged al-Qaeda commander Rahim al-Nashiri in a bid to frighten him.

In another case, a gun was fired in another room to lead a detainee to think another suspect had been killed.

The US has banned harsh interrogation methods, including death threats.

Even under the Bush administration’ controversial interpretation of the law, causing “severe mental pain” by the “threat of imminent death” was considered illegal.

About two dozen alleged prisoner abuse cases, mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan were referred to the justice department by the CIA’s inspector general but later closed.

Now suddenly, the US department of justice’s ethics office has called for nearly a dozen of these cases to be reopened, the New York Times reports.

What an amazing coincidence, huh? When everything is secret and classified, these dozen or so cases could be comfortably closed, no questions asked. Now that a judge has inconveniently forced details to be publicly disclosed, the cases are suddenly going to be reopened.