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12-09-2014, 07:21 PM
Washington (CNN) -- The CIA's harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees during the Bush era didn't work, were more brutal than previously revealed and delivered no "ticking time bomb" information that prevented an attack, according to an explosive Senate report released Tuesday.
The majority report issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee is a damning condemnation of the tactics -- branded by critics as torture -- the George W. Bush administration deployed in the fear-laden days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The techniques, according to the report, were "deeply flawed," poorly managed and often resulted in "fabricated" information.
The long-delayed study, distilled from more than six million CIA documents, also says the agency consistently misled Congress and the Bush White House about the harsh methods it used and the results it obtained from interrogating al Qaeda suspects.
The report is reigniting the partisan divide over combating terrorism that dominated Washington a decade ago. Democrats argue the tactics conflict with American values while leading members of the Bush administration insist they were vital to preventing another attack.
It contains grisly details of detainees held in secret overseas facilities being subjected to near drowning, or waterboarding, driven to delirium by days of sleep deprivation, threatened with mock executions and threats that their relatives would be sexually abused.
Heard Hannity say today that releasing the Senate report would only help fuel retaliation against us blah blah blah. Typical you are unAmerican if you care about government secrets crap. I love the quote from the Judge the other day when he said that a police state is when the government cares more about protecting itself than it's people.
On a side note, ole McCain finally got one right because he actually condemned these actions and sided with dems on this. Of course this was always the one issue McCain had right. Fun by the way how the one neocon that actually experienced torture is actually against it. Maybe that should tell us all something.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/09/politics/cia-torture-report/
The majority report issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee is a damning condemnation of the tactics -- branded by critics as torture -- the George W. Bush administration deployed in the fear-laden days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The techniques, according to the report, were "deeply flawed," poorly managed and often resulted in "fabricated" information.
The long-delayed study, distilled from more than six million CIA documents, also says the agency consistently misled Congress and the Bush White House about the harsh methods it used and the results it obtained from interrogating al Qaeda suspects.
The report is reigniting the partisan divide over combating terrorism that dominated Washington a decade ago. Democrats argue the tactics conflict with American values while leading members of the Bush administration insist they were vital to preventing another attack.
It contains grisly details of detainees held in secret overseas facilities being subjected to near drowning, or waterboarding, driven to delirium by days of sleep deprivation, threatened with mock executions and threats that their relatives would be sexually abused.
Heard Hannity say today that releasing the Senate report would only help fuel retaliation against us blah blah blah. Typical you are unAmerican if you care about government secrets crap. I love the quote from the Judge the other day when he said that a police state is when the government cares more about protecting itself than it's people.
On a side note, ole McCain finally got one right because he actually condemned these actions and sided with dems on this. Of course this was always the one issue McCain had right. Fun by the way how the one neocon that actually experienced torture is actually against it. Maybe that should tell us all something.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/09/politics/cia-torture-report/