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Senate report on CIA torture claims spy agency lied about 'ineffective' program
Senate report on CIA torture claims spy agency lied about 'ineffective' program
Report released by Senate after four-year, $40m investigation concludes CIA repeatedly lied abou
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/cia-torture-report-released
By: Spencer Ackerman, Dominic Rushe, and Julian Borger
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The full extent of the CIA’s interrogation and detention programmes launched in the wake of the September 11 terror attack was laid bare in a milestone report by the Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday that concluded the agency’s use of torture was brutal and ineffective – and that the CIA repeatedly lied about its usefulness.
The report represented the most scathing congressional indictment of the Central Intelligence Agency in nearly four decades. It found that torture “regularly resulted in fabricated information,” said committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, in a statement summarizing the findings. She called the torture programme “a stain on our values and on our history”.
“During the brutal interrogations, the CIA was often unaware the information was fabricated.” She told the Senate the torture program was “morally, legally and administratively misguided” and “far more brutal than people were led to believe”.
The report reveals that use of torture in secret prisons run by the CIA across the world was even more extreme than previously exposed, and included “rectal rehydration” and “rectal feeding”, sleep deprivation lasting almost a week and threats to the families of the detainees.
Source: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2016/10/senate-report-on-cia-torture-claims-spy.html
