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Showing Original Post only (View all)Senator Wyden: Americans will be "profoundly disturbed" by report on CIA [View all]
Sen. Wyden: Americans will be 'profoundly disturbed' by report on CIA's terrorist interrogationsU.S. Sen. Ron Wyden explained today why he voted to declassify the Senate Intelligence Committee's apparently scathing 6,200-page report on the CIA's detention and brutal interrogation of overseas terrorism suspects.
"I believe the American people will be profoundly disturbed by the contents of this report," the senior senator from Oregon wrote in a news release. "Though I can't provide any details until that declassification process is finished, I can say that the American people will see that much of what CIA officials have said about the effectiveness of coercive interrogations was simply untrue."
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"I have spoken about the intelligence leadership's culture of misinformation before and it continues to be a problem to this day," Wyden said in his news statement. "I have also been asking questions publicly for years about the role that outside contractors played in the interrogation program and I hope the American people will soon get some answers to those questions."
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"It is going to make many people uncomfortable," he wrote, "but getting the facts about torture out to the American people will keep these mistakes from being repeated and make our national intelligence agencies stronger and more effective in the long run."
"I believe the American people will be profoundly disturbed by the contents of this report," the senior senator from Oregon wrote in a news release. "Though I can't provide any details until that declassification process is finished, I can say that the American people will see that much of what CIA officials have said about the effectiveness of coercive interrogations was simply untrue."
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"I have spoken about the intelligence leadership's culture of misinformation before and it continues to be a problem to this day," Wyden said in his news statement. "I have also been asking questions publicly for years about the role that outside contractors played in the interrogation program and I hope the American people will soon get some answers to those questions."
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"It is going to make many people uncomfortable," he wrote, "but getting the facts about torture out to the American people will keep these mistakes from being repeated and make our national intelligence agencies stronger and more effective in the long run."
When this report is declassified, will anyone responsible for the torture, those that gave the orders and those that carried them out, be held accountable??
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Senator Wyden: Americans will be "profoundly disturbed" by report on CIA [View all]
neverforget
Apr 2014
OP
This NSA spying business has been a stain and the CIA torture an embarrassment to the country
quinnox
Apr 2014
#3
I hope you're not right, because if you are, we're doomed to repeat this again
neverforget
Apr 2014
#5
Sen. Wyden was often a lone voice against these agencies, against the secrecy, the torture etc
sabrina 1
Apr 2014
#16
The low level ones will get jail while those that gave the orders get off. I certainly hope not!
neverforget
Apr 2014
#43
If the US takes no action to prosecute those responsible for the torture, maybe some
JDPriestly
Apr 2014
#19
Probably. Yes. Out of vengeance. And yes. We have lost the moral high ground.
JDPriestly
Apr 2014
#26
FUCK RON PAUL AND THE LIBERTARIANS!! I'm a Democrat and I'm supporting my Party!
Douglas Carpenter
Apr 2014
#20
I am "profoundly disturbed" that there will be no accountability for these crimes.
Autumn
Apr 2014
#29