A Video Game That Lets You Torture Iraqi Prisoners

These are some of the government's sanitized terms for the "enhanced interrogation techniques" that the CIA used on captives held at secret locations overseas during the George W. Bush administration. They mask the brutality that many prisoners faced for months or years under the agency's interrogation program, as outlined in the landmark 2014 report from the Senate Intelligence Committee. That report is dense and riddled with redactions, but its findings have never been more relevant. Although President Obama signed an executive order ending "enhanced interrogation" two days after taking office in 2009, torture could easily find its way back on the table: Donald Trump has repeatedly endorsed waterboarding, which he's called "minimal, minimal, minimal torture," and has said he's prepared to do "much worse." What if there were a way to make sense of state-sanctioned torture in a more visceral way than by reading a news article or watching a documentary?