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UPDATE: Link to the report Senate Intelligence Committee Report on CIA Torture Techniques
… the CIA’s interrogation techniques never yielded any intelligence about imminent terrorist attacks”
Senate Expected To Release Long-Held CIA ‘Torture Report’
Later this morning, the Senate Intelligence Committee will release an executive summary of what’s come to be known as its “torture report.”
The report is expected to be the most comprehensive public accounting the interrogation techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
What’s in it is so sensitive and controversial that the report’s release has sparked public spats between the CIA and Senate lawmakers.
It all came to a dramatic head on the floor of the Senate in March. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chairwoman of the Senate intelligence panel, accused the CIA of trying to thwart her committee’s work by deleting files and later by illegally spying on Senate computers. The CIA – which eventually apologized to the Senate – had accused Feinstein and her committee of improperly removing classified documents from a government network.
The Senate is expected to release a 460 page executive summary today.
Dick Cheney Was Lying About Torture
It’s official: torture doesn’t work. Waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, did not in fact “produce the intelligence that allowed us to get Osama bin Laden,” as former Vice President Dick Cheney asserted in 2011. Those are among the central findings of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA interrogation and detention after 9/11.
The report’s executive summary is expected to be released Tuesday. After reviewing thousands of the CIA’s own documents, the committee has concluded that torture was ineffective as an intelligence-gathering technique. Torture produced little information of value, and what little it did produce could’ve been gained through humane, legal methods that uphold American ideals.
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