CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations

mrspoonsi sends this news from the BBC: The CIA carried out "brutal" interrogations of terror suspects in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., a U.S. Senate report has said. The summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report said the CIA misled Americans on the effectiveness of "enhanced interrogation." The interrogation was poorly managed and unreliable, the report said. President Obama has previously said that in his view the techniques amounted to torture. The Senate committee's report runs to more than 6,000 pages, drawing on huge quantities of evidence, but it remains classified and only a 480-page summary (PDF) is being released. Publication had been delayed amid disagreements in Washington over what should be made public. CIA Director John Brennan has posted a response.

Comments

Re:Justice

[QRDeNameland]

...with liberty and justice for all. *

* Disclaimer: Must be 18 or over, void where prohibited, some restrictions may apply, not available in all states.

apologies to Doug Stanhope

Re:Really?

[Anonymous Coward]

BINGO!

No, I don't mean I agree with you, I mean I literally won a game of conservative "BINGO", as in you successfully parroted almost every current conservative talking point. Please allow me to enumerate:

1. Obama doesn't like America
2. The US was "scared out of our minds"
3. Never recovered economically
4. Justification of impunity
5. Should have escalated war
6. Justification of torture using irrelevant current events
7. FUD as the result of these revelations
8. More Obama FUD
9. The world only respects military might
10. Weak justification of destroying and occupying Iraq
11. "The gov't is failing to protect our interests"
12. Obama golfs...

So congratulations for being able to repeat things you've heard without having to actually put any real thought into it. A two-year-old toddler can do the same.

Re:Really?

[PopeRatzo]

Brutal is having your skinned peeled off in one inch strips, electrodes to the privates, hammer to the toes, peeling your finger nails off, propane torches, pliers and nipples, etc. THAT'S brutal.

Pfff. That's not brutal. Brutal is having your head ripped off by a Bengal tiger with ebola while being lifted into the air on a studded 2x4 stuck up your ass, while Linkin Park is being played at 160 decibels. Before you've had your morning coffee.

Now THAT'S brutal.

These guys just didn't have a good time is all.

We talking about the CIA interrogators? It sounded like they had a blast.

Re:Really?

[sycodon]

Clearly, you've never worked on a major software release.