The CIA’s actions detailed in a long-awaited torture report released yesterday are “a stain on our values and our history.” Those are the words of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The report, a damning indictment of the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation program, is filled with shocking instances of CIA abuse, including “rectal rehydration” and physical threats. It provides evidence to those at home and abroad who accuse the CIA of going too far in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The CIA continues to maintain that its actions were necessary to save American lives at a time when the country was under attack. However, the long-held claim that these interrogations led to information that stopped terror attacks is simply untrue, the report found. FP’s John Hudson: “The report argues forcefully that enhanced interrogation does not result in reliable information and can often result in false confessions. In one case, a detainee copped to attempting to recruit African-American Muslims in Montana, a dubious claim given that blacks make up less than 1 percent of the population in the state. Two of the military psychologists who advised the agency to use waterboarding, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, had never conducted any real interrogations, but had lead a training program that prepared Air Force personnel to resist torture if captured by communist foes during the Cold War. That program was never intended for use by American interrogators because it was known to produce false confessions.”
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:38:34 +0000
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