CIA Deceived White House, Public Over '(Far More) Brutal' Interrogations: Report

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Source: Reuters

CIA deceived White House, public over 'brutal' interrogations: report

WASHINGTON | Tue Dec 9, 2014 3:10pm EST

By Mark Hosenball

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA routinely misled the White House and Congress over its harsh interrogation program for terrorism suspects and its methods, which included waterboarding, were more brutal than the agency acknowledged, a Senate report said on Tuesday.

The program, devised by two agency contractors to squeeze information from suspects after the Sept. 11 2001 attacks, was ineffective and never led to the disruption of a single plot, the report by the Senate Intelligence Committee said.

The program ran from 2002 to 2006 and involved questioning al Qaeda and other captives in secret detention facilities in various countries, including Afghanistan, Poland, Romania and Thailand.

The report, which followed a five-year investigation, found the techniques used were "far more brutal" than the CIA told the public or policymakers. Its release prompted a boost of security at U.S. facilities abroad.

"This document examines the CIA's secret overseas detention of at least 119 individuals and the use of coercive interrogation techniques - in some cases amounting to torture," committee chair Dianne Feinstein said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0JM24I20141209

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[Politicalboi]

1. I bet Cheney knew

And Ok'd it. This is why we need a thorough investigation of 9/11. How could men in caves hold us hostage for hours, and attack the Pentagon.

[Demeter]

2. Do they have a total count on deaths and maimings and mental debilities?

[KansDem]

3. I don't believe for a second that the White House was "deceived."

Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice knew exactly what they were doing...

[easychoice]

4. BULLSHIT!!! G.H.W. Bush is the C.I.A.

all that stupid turd fondler shrub had to do was listen to pappy and cheney gloating.
G.H.W.,Clinton,shrub and B.O. all knew about it in real time.

[nichomachus]

5. With all due respect, Reuters -- bullshit

We all knew enough about what was going on. We knew it 10 years ago. We knew enough to put Bush, Cheney, and the rest of that criminal gang behind bars for the rest of their miserable lives. Did we learn more today? Yeah, maybe. But what we already knew was enough.

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