The CIA treated photos as a designed shame-multiplier in interrogation.

Evidence

The photos are ‘staged operas of fabricated shame intended to “intensify” the prisoners’ guilt feelings, increase his anxiety and his urge to cooperate,’ Danner wrote, quoting parts of the CIA’s interrogation policy. Photos are a ‘shame multiplier,’ according to the Red Cross, since they could be distributed to the prisoners’ families and used to further humiliate detainees. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 155

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the Red Cross term ‘shame multiplier’ as a specific mechanism of torture.