The advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) on Monday said the U.S. has lost any moral high ground in the so-called war on terror after years of revelations that the CIA secretly tortured detainees, and warned that history would “certainly” repeat itself without full accountability.

PHR released its statement in response to new reporting by the New York Times which highlighted the long-term psychological devastation that the torture program wreaked on former prisoners, many of whom now live with debilitating trauma, anxiety, and in some cases, psychosis.

The article, published Sunday, shed yet more light on the gruesome tactics carried out against detainees that ranged from threats to beatings, sleep deprivation, and sexual violence.

“This latest revelation of the scope, pervasiveness, magnitude, and utter unlawfulness of this so–called ‘enhanced interrogation’ program and related practices should be a wake–up call to the administration,” said Dr. Vincent Iacopino, PHR’s medical director.

The Times spoke with several former detainees who survived their ordeals at the hands of the U.S. One man, Mohamed Ben Soud, who was held in a now-infamous secret CIA prison in Afghanistan known as the Salt Pit, described being shackled and hooded and doused in water, which caused a drowning or choking sensation. In 2004, a year after he was captured, Ben Soud was handed over to the Libyan government, remaining in jail for another seven years. There, he said, he was treated better by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s forces than American agents.