From The Huffington Post
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released the highly anticipated 500-page summary of its report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, providing a sobering glimpse into one of the darkest chapters in the U.S. government's history.
In the report, a product of a 5-year investigation,
Senate investigators reveal torrid details of the systemic and individual
failures by the agency personnel who ran the enhanced interrogation program
during the George W. Bush administration. The program involved capturing
terrorism suspects and shipping them to secret overseas prisons, where they
were subjected to harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding.
The CIA's program has long been criticized as un-American and a chilling departure
from the nation’s values. Opponents allege that it resulted in gross abuses and
inhumane treatment of detainees, some of whom were eventually revealed not to
have been involved in terror organizations.
The newly released document tears apart the CIA's
past claims that only a small number of detainees were subjected to the harsh
interrogation techniques. The agency has said it held fewer than 100 detainees
and subjected fewer than one-third of those to controversial tactics such as
waterboarding. But Senate investigators found that the CIA had actually kept
119 detainees in custody, 26 of whom were illegally held. And despite CIA
insistence that the program was limited in scope, Senate investigators conclude
that the use of enhanced interrogation was much more widespread than previously
thought.
The study reveals several gruesome instances of
torture by mid-level CIA officers who participated in the program, including
sexual threats with use of a broomstick and the use of "rectal
hydration" in instances of harsh interrogations that lasted for days or
weeks on end. And, contrary to the agency's prior insistence that only three
detainees were subject to waterboarding, the Senate report suggests it was
likely used on more detainees.
This is old news that was stopped back in 2003, and not under Obama so, why put peoples lives at Risk ?
ReplyDeleteThe days of the Democratic party control are counting down and Ashton Carter hasn't been nominated as Sec. of Def. yet. Carter is extremely anti CIA and Dianne Feinstein is confused and is still blaming the CIA and not the FBI and NSA for spying on her. Hell have no fury than a confused democratic senate woman.
This is nothing more than last minute dirty politics to set the table and buy time as the opposing party takes over. Qualifications be dammed , if this report results in people being killed it is not in the best interests of America or the American people Ashton Carter should not be nominated. The Democrats will have blood on their hands.The high turnover will continue and shortly Obama will need his 7th Sec DEF in as many years.
Your chosen moniker is resolutely ironic.
DeleteYour a priori dismissal of the facts is demonstrative of your total immersion in the right-wing echo chamber.
You should go back and listen to John McCain's speech that immediately followed Diane Feinstein's on the Senate floor introducing the contents of this report.
If the CIA really wants to torture someone lock them in a room with Erin Quinney and Brent Abrahamson.
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