CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says

[kpete]

Source: WAPO

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The report, built around detailed chronologies of dozens of CIA detainees, documents a long-standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use — and later tried to defend — excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence, according to U.S. officials who have reviewed the document.

“The CIA described (its program) repeatedly both to the Department of Justice and eventually to Congress as getting unique, otherwise unobtainable intelligence that helped disrupt terrorist plots and save thousands of lives,” said one U.S. official briefed on the report. “Was that actually true? The answer is no.”

Current and former U.S. officials who described the report spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue and because the document remains classified. The 6,300-page report includes what officials described as damning new disclosures about a sprawling network of secret detention facilities, or “black sites,” that was dismantled by President Obama in 2009.

CIA employees left the agency’s secret prison in Thailand after becoming disturbed by the brutal measures being employed there. The report also cites cases in which officials at CIA headquarters demanded the continued use of harsh interrogation techniques even after analysts were convinced that prisoners had no more information to give.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-misled-on-interrogation-program-senate-report-says/2014/03/31/eb75a82a-b8dd-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html

[Jesus Malverde]

1. Not a single one of the torturers or the ones who ordered it have been held to account.

The leaders who have adopted torture and murder as a tool of empire have not been held to account.

Cheney and Rumsfeld have been given a pass.

Sad days for all of US.

[truth2power]

11. Yep. Nobody EVER gets fired...

And if Obama dismantled all those black sites then how about declassifying that report? Or are we just supposed to take his word for it?

[delrem]

2. Golly! Who'da thunkit??

And perhaps there was a bit of "misleading" on the numbers of departed going into and coming out of the black sites.

Oh! There were no such numbers! That's why they were called "black sites"? Who could imagine! I didn't read about this when I was reading biblical lore about George Washington and the Cherry Tree!

The recent news is about Pres. Obama's visit to Poland. Pres. Obama touted the ties that bind, the cooperation between countries. Pres. Obama didn't mention the terms of "cooperation" that included Poland allowing, and hiding, "US black sites in the WoT". Black sites designed to hold folk who'd been "extraordinarily rendered", who'd been ghosted and taken outside the purview of every law and every consciousness. There to be done by professionals, professional interrogators, torturers, psychologists, and doctors intent on keeping the subject alive through the entire procedure.

Maybe that wouldn't be "Safe for the MSM"

[pragmatic_dem]

3. and we will learn absolutely nothing from this human rights disaster and the spying

apologists will go on and on about the valuable intelligence they are collecting by reading your email and web posts like this one.

As if it wasn't enough that we destroyed two countries and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, we've got this shit as well.

The perpetrators/psychopaths behind these programs should be put in jail. God help the empty conscience of those who "look past" and "move forward", effectively rewarding those who indulged themselves with violence and torture at our nation's expense.

[House of Roberts]

4. Please always remember and don't ever forget:

Nuremberg established the precedent that 'following orders' was not a valid defense!

[alfredo]

5. And Fox's "24" was not a training video.

[neverforget]

6. Prosecute the motherfuckers and those that gave the orders.

Anything less and it'll happen again.

[bobthedrummer]

12. The rule of law must apply to so-called "national security" classification-it's a capital offense

n/t

[Scuba]

7. Heads will roll, right? The President won't stand for CIA lying to the Senate, will he?

[JoeyT]

8. Pretty much everyone knows better.

That's why only the horrible "far leftists" kick or rec these threads. People know they're going to be stuck defending coverups, stonewalling, or "looking forward" later. Which kind of has to suck. I'd hate to be in that position.

[NobodyHere]

9. The senate needs to get tough

The senate should cut the CIAs funding until it comes clean on everything.

[WillyT]

10. K & R !!!

[Comrade Grumpy]

13. This is a fundamental perversion of our democracy. The CIA needs to be reigned in (again).