Senate Votes To Release CIA Report On Torture

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In a six thousand-page report the Senate voted to have released, the fact that many detainees the CIA used ?enhanced interrogation? techniques on actually produced none if any results. The interrogation methods were so useless at producing desired confessions the CIA falsified reports on the program to Congress claiming their methods were necessary to get vital information about Al Qaeda during the Bush Administration’s ?War on Terror.?

The report disclosed how CIA officials were unable to agree on using the interrogation program that some of the methods used were never listed on any approved list of techniques, and some CIA agents refused to remain at secret locations where the torture went on due to the brutality of the program.

The Senate yesterday voted to release the report after learning that despite the methods of torture used during interrogations, very little if any information from prisoners came after they were tortured. In fact, in one report a prisoner told his interrogators everything he knew, and they tortured him after the fact.

The CIA presented falsified information in Senate hearings, citing the necessity of using enhanced interrogation for the information the program gained from prisoners. These hearings were used to decide if the CIA could continue with the program after photographs of torture from Abu Ghriab prison were released. Enhanced interrogation was allowed to continue by the Senate based on CIA testimony.

Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and George Bush all insisted during the Bush administration that the methods being used by the CIA and the military in Iraq were necessary to learn valuable information about Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Now we know they and the CIA lied, but is there anything that can be done about it? All three even today insist no prisoners were tortured for information, and all interrogation techniques were legal. Four years ago President Obama ended the enhanced interrogation program and stated the methods were torture on his second day of office. Like many aspects of the Bush Administration, people will shake their heads at the blatant breaking of the law, but the law will do little to bring the guilty to justice.

 

Edited/Published by: SB

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