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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 12:24 PM Dec 2014

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 CIA’s 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 what’s going on.”

A declassified summary of the committee’s 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?

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Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2014 OP
you beat me to it by exactly one minute Douglas Carpenter Dec 2014 #1
So they lied to the WH *AND* received instructions from the WH at the same time? underpants Dec 2014 #2
Interesting--they were worried that Colin Powell would object, or go public. TwilightGardener Dec 2014 #3
Not much has changed except that Obama changed the official policy. nt kelliekat44 Dec 2014 #4
"They hate us for our FREEDOM" - GWB vkkv Dec 2014 #5
What If Obama Had Tortured then Lie and Deny to Congress mitty14u2 Dec 2014 #6
the evil of the bush regime samsingh Dec 2014 #7
Those responsible all the way down to the people filling the water buckets should be rhett o rick Dec 2014 #8
Traitors. Octafish Dec 2014 #9
Honor codes Trillo Dec 2014 #10
Kudos to Feinstein and the Dems uhnope Dec 2014 #11
MUST blkmusclmachine Dec 2014 #12
Remember that it the salaries of these monsters you are funding next April. PSPS Dec 2014 #13

underpants

(182,271 posts)
2. So they lied to the WH *AND* received instructions from the WH at the same time?
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 12:43 PM
Dec 2014

The CIA is going to take the blame clearly giving Dick&W some cover.

 

vkkv

(3,384 posts)
5. "They hate us for our FREEDOM" - GWB
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 01:51 PM
Dec 2014

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)
6. What If Obama Had Tortured then Lie and Deny to Congress
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 01:52 PM
Dec 2014

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

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
8. Those responsible all the way down to the people filling the water buckets should be
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 03:43 PM
Dec 2014

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)
9. Traitors.
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 04:14 PM
Dec 2014

According to Feinstein, the four key findings of the report include:

1. The CIA’s “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 CIA’s 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

PSPS

(13,512 posts)
13. Remember that it the salaries of these monsters you are funding next April.
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 09:14 PM
Dec 2014

Apparently, our "government" now gleefully employs and promotes sadistic deviants.

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