CIA and White House Under Pressure After Senate Torture Report Leaks

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CIA and White House Under Pressure After Senate Torture Report Leaks
The Guardian / By Spencer Ackerman

April 12, 2014 | A leak of the major findings of a landmark Senate inquiry into the CIA’s post-9/11 torture of terrorism detainees led, on Friday, to intensified pressure on the White House and the CIA to release the inquiry speedily and with a minimum of redactions.

The classified study, prepared by the Senate select committee on intelligence, concluded that the CIA’s interrogations, secret detentions and outsourced torture sessions were “brutal, and far worse than the agency communicated to policymakers.”

More suspected terrorists underwent the agency’s post-9/11 treatment, which largely lasted from 2002 to 2006, than the CIA has publicly admitted, according to the report’s findings, which were first reported byMcClatchy. Last week, committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein of California stated that the Senate investigated the cases of 100 detainees– dozens more than previously known to have gone through the CIA’s so-called “interrogation, detention and rendition” programs.

In addition to misleading policymakers, the Senate report charges the CIA with selectively and leaking classified and inaccurate information to journalists in order to portray the program in a positive light.

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1. Better late than never

Of course enhanced interrogation, or as it has always been known as, torture, should never have happened.

Those that approved it will never see a Nierenberg type trial. In fact Cheney is quite proud of it and W hides behind his paintings and booze.

This is a very black mark on my country.