CIA’s use of harsh interrogation went beyond legal authority, Senate report says
Source: McClatchy
WASHINGTON A still-secret Senate Intelligence Committee report calls into question the legal foundation of the CIAs use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists, a finding that challenges the key defense on which the agency and the Bush administration relied in arguing that the methods didnt constitute torture.
The report also found that the spy agency failed to keep an accurate account of the number of individuals it held, and that it issued erroneous claims about how many it detained and subjected to the controversial interrogation methods. The CIA has said that about 30 detainees underwent the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques.
The CIAs claim is BS, said a former U.S. official familiar with evidence underpinning the report, who asked not to be identified because the matter is still classified. They are trying to minimize the damage. They are trying to say it was a very targeted program, but thats not the case.
The findings are among the reports 20 main conclusions. Taken together, they paint a picture of an intelligence agency that seemed intent on evading or misleading nearly all of its oversight mechanisms throughout the program, which was launched under the Bush administration after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and ran until 2006.
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/04/11/224085/cias-use-of-harsh-interrogation.html
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)The "change" is being forced on them. His own administration could have laid bare the bush admin torture and murder programs, the agreements with the cartels and the infamous secret bush energy meetings.
We would never have had to hear from the likes of Condi, Cheney and Shrub who are back like a bad nightmare nor would they even have the nerve to float Jeb as a candidate. The Bush family should have been disgraced by a tough Democratic administration.
The republicans shit all over us, and we continually reach across the aisle for to work with SCUM.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Obama has been a major disappointment in this area. It is out of the so called "respect for the institution of the presidency" that he didn't expose the Bush admin but why respect an institution of a former president that he didn't respect it himself and tarnished it?
underpants
(182,879 posts)Jane Mayer's "The Dark Side"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_(book)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques#U.S._government
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Cheerful Charlie
(46 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 12, 2014, 01:35 PM - Edit history (1)
That's the only thing that's news to me. As for the waterboarding, wall slamming, etc., I guess now I can say I know it happened, whereas before, I only believed it.