Report finds harsh CIA interrogations ineffective
Source: Washington Post
By Greg Miller, Published: December 13
After a contentious closed-door vote, the Senate intelligence committee approved a long-awaited report Thursday concluding that harsh interrogation measures used by the CIA did not produce significant intelligence breakthroughs, officials said.
The 6,000-page document, which was not released to the public, was adopted by Democrats over the objections of most of the committees Republicans. The outcome reflects the level of partisan friction that continues to surround the CIAs use of waterboarding and other severe interrogation techniques four years after they were banned.
The report is the most detailed independent examination to date of the agencys efforts to break dozens of detainees through physical and psychological duress, a period of CIA history that has become a source of renewed controversy because of torture scenes in a forthcoming Hollywood film, Zero Dark Thirty.
Officials familiar with the report said it makes a detailed case that subjecting prisoners to enhanced interrogation techniques did not help the CIA find Osama bin Laden and often were counterproductive in the broader campaign against al-Qaeda ...
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/report-finds-harsh-cia-interrogations-ineffective/2012/12/13/a9da510a-455b-11e2-9648-a2c323a991d6_story.html
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)aandegoons
(473 posts)It has become a perversion.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Torture still torture, still legal.
Botany
(70,654 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)... Democratic chairwoman, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California .... said the report, with 20 official conclusions and 35,000 footnotes, includes details of each detainee in C.I.A. custody, the conditions under which they were detained, how they were interrogated, the intelligence they actually provided and the accuracy or inaccuracy of C.I.A. descriptions about the program to the White House, Department of Justice, Congress and others ...
The report now goes to the White House, the C.I.A. and other agencies for review and comment. After that is complete in mid-February, the committee will vote again on how much of the report should be declassified.
One Republican, Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, who is retiring, joined all the committees Democrats in voting for the report. In addition, Senator John McCain of Arizona, who as the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee is a nonvoting member of the Intelligence Committee, gave it a strong endorsement ...
Mr. McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and has been an outspoken critic of the C.I.A.s former methods, wrote Intelligence Committee members urging them to finalize and declassify this report, so that all Americans can see the record for themselves, which I believe will finally close this painful chapter for our country. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/us/politics/senate-panel-approves-findings-on-prisoner-interrogations.html?_r=0
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)By Michael Mathes (AFP) 13 hours ago
... Investigators pored over six million pages in a 3.5-year review of Central Intelligence Agency practice, including the sending of detainees to so-called "black sites" around the world where they endured harsh interrogation ...
Republicans on the panel had boycotted participation in the investigation from the start, in part because it was based on documents and not interviews conducted with intelligence agents ...
The "comprehensive review" will now get sent to the president, Feinstein said. The executive branch has until February 15 to send to the panel its comments and recommendations on declassification ...
Feinstein and Senator Carl Levin in April released a joint statement saying coercive interrogation techniques did not play a role in locating bin Laden.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gGTcghbvjhIdtwwI55XnyHWgjU8A?docId=CNG.3adceb343777bcae88d34406b11e6ed2.1c1
Solly Mack
(90,801 posts)"harsh interrogation measures"
"use of waterboarding and other severe interrogation techniques"
"physical and psychological duress"
It's called torture.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)it worked so well on 24 Hours!
Maybe they were doing it wrong.