Welcome to the exquisite hell of being director of the Central Intelligence Agency today. Brutality must be rejected as a “mistake,” but simultaneously preserved as a possible policy option. Inhuman abuses are the fault of a few bad actors, who were never punished for their work in CIA dungeons and who tarnished the reputation of an entire agency. And, finally, the central question of whether harsh, coercive tactics actually produced information that couldn’t be obtained any other way is, in Brennan’s words, “unknowable.”
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:35:08 +0000
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