When I heard he said “hide your head in a bag” my mind immediately went to those awful photos from Abu Ghraib. Sure enough, Wikipedia has that one picture front and center on its page about the prisoner abuse:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
It wouldn’t surprise me if that what this poor excuse for a human had in mind, too.
Well, there was no physical torture in that Congressional hearing, but that might only have been because of the cameras.