Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty
Source: Washington Post
By Greg Miller, Adam Goldman and Julie Tate December 9 at 11:11 AM
An exhaustive, five-year Senate investigation of the CIAs secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict of a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality, dishonesty and seemingly arbitrary violence that at times brought even agency employees to moments of anguish.
The report by the Senate Intelligence Committee delivers new allegations of cruelty in a program whose severe tactics have been abundantly documented, revealing that agency medical personnel voiced alarm that waterboarding methods had deteriorated to a series of near drownings and that agency employees subjected detainees to rectal rehydration and other painful procedures that were never approved.
The 528-page document catalogues dozens of cases in which CIA officials allegedly deceived their superiors at the White House, members of Congress and even sometimes their own peers about how the interrogation program was being run and what it had achieved. In one case, an internal CIA memo relays instructions from the White House to keep the program secret from then-Secretary of State Colin Powell out of concern that he would blow his stack if he were to be briefed on whats going on.
A declassified summary of the committees work discloses for the first time a complete roster of all 119 prisoners held in CIA custody and indicates that at least 26 were held because of mistaken identities or bad intelligence. The publicly released summary is drawn from a longer, classified study that exceeds 6,000 pages.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senate-report-on-cia-program-details-brutality-dishonesty/2014/12/09/1075c726-7f0e-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html?
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)not fair - I NEVER get to post the story first
underpants
(182,271 posts)The CIA is going to take the blame clearly giving Dick&W some cover.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)That's a point in his favor.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)vkkv
(3,384 posts)Oh right, and the fact that we short-change them, manipulate their governments, poison their people and land, assassinate their elected officials and abduct a few on occasion..
mitty14u2
(1,015 posts)It would have been the fastest impeachment in history with Fox News Corp crying for his Head!
http://www.c-span.org/live/?channel=c-span-2
samsingh
(17,571 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)prosecuted to the fullest. "Just following orders" doesn't cut it. We are always going to have evil men at the top but the common people should tell them to go to hell when ordered to torture. You have to be a sick individual to participate.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)According to Feinstein, the four key findings of the report include:
1. The CIAs enhanced interrogation techniques were not effective.
2. The CIA provided extensive inaccurate information about the operation of the program and its effectiveness to policymakers and the public.
3. The CIAs management of the program was inadequate and deeply flawed.
4. The CIA program was far more brutal than the CIA represented to policymakers and the American public.
SOURCE: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/09/senate-report-released-us-detained-and-tortured-innocent-people
Trillo
(9,154 posts)Only meant for people at the bottom of pyramids, rarely to those at the top.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)for getting this out before the Repubs take over Congress
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)LOOK
FORWARD
PSPS
(13,512 posts)Apparently, our "government" now gleefully employs and promotes sadistic deviants.