Investigative reporter Jane Mayer has published a major expose in The New Yorker on the CIA’s black sites — the U.S. network of secret overseas prisons. Mayer reports the International Committee of the Red Cross has concluded the CIA’s detention and interrogation methods is tantamount to torture. Sources told Mayer that the confidential Red Cross report also warned that U.S. officials responsible for the abusive treatment may have committed “grave breaches” of the Geneva Conventions and may have violated the U.S. Torture Act. The Red Cross issued the confidential report to the Bush administration last year, but, according to Mayer, only a handful of people inside the administration have even seen the report. Detainees almost universally told the Red Cross that they made up stories to get the harsh interrogations to stop. Mayer also reveals new details about the CIA’s interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. Mohammed reportedly told the Red Cross that he was held naked in his cell, questioned by female interrogators to humiliate him, attached to a dog leash and made to run into walls, and put in painful positions while chained to the floor. Mohammed also said he was “waterboarded” in addition to being held in suffocating heat and painfully cold conditions.