Senate Report Says CIA Misled Government About Interrogation Methods

mrspoonsi sends this news from the Washington Post: "A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years — concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance of plots and prisoners, and taking credit for critical pieces of intelligence that detainees had in fact surrendered before they were subjected to harsh techniques. 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. ... At the secret prison, Baluchi endured a regime that included being dunked in a tub filled with ice water. CIA interrogators forcibly kept his head under the water while he struggled to breathe and beat him repeatedly, hitting him with a truncheon-like object and smashing his head against a wall, officials said. As with Abu Zubaida and even Nashiri, officials said, CIA interrogators continued the harsh treatment even after it appeared that Baluchi was cooperating."

Comments

Re:So Arrest Them

[Arker]

For the same reason every attempt at investigating this at the time turned into career (if not literal) suicide and went nowhere. Because if you are going to arrest anyone, you have to investigate, and if you investigate, you have to follow leads, and if you follow leads, you will wind up in the 'Oval Office.'

Which has enough juice to quash your investigation and make your life very uncomfortable for trying.

Re:WaPo still won't use word "torture"

[dbIII]

Read about how our soldiers where treated in North Korea

I have. You should as well. You will learn where the USA learned the waterboarding torture technique from.

Re:Good luck

[Anonymous Coward]

This isn't so much a war on terror; its a war OF terror. Where the americans arrest, torture and release their possible enemies.

Re:WaPo still won't use word "torture"

[VortexCortex]

Yes, but evil and greed know no borders. The US's School of the Americas worked diligently to educate others in torture methods they discovered themselves.

Do not be distracted by the wickedly deformed path that evil takes, for any can use the architecture of aggression for their own twisted ends.