Editorial: Trump’s arrogance now imperils some of his environmental decisions. stating that information extracted from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed during torture had allowed for the capture of, Despite contrary statements made by the CIA's Director, Michael V. Hayden, that "all those involved in the questioning of detainees are carefully chosen and screened for demonstrated professional judgment and maturity,", The CIA provided false information to the Department of Justice's.

A REPORT ON enhanced interrogations released by Sen. Dianne Feinstein was done without bipartisan support. CIA interrogators threatened to rape and murder children and/or family members of prisoners. CIA detainees at one detention facility, described as a “dungeon,” were kept in complete darkness and constantly shackled in isolated cells with loud noise or music and only a bucket to use for human waste. The CIA failed to review its previous use of coercive interrogations decades earlier, which resulted in the conclusion, as stated to Congress in 1989, that “inhumane physical or psychological techniques are counterproductive because they do not produce intelligence and will probably result in false answers.” The CIA also did not contact other parts of the U.S. government with interrogation expertise.

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", At least one prisoner was "diagnosed with chronic hemorrhoids, an anal fissure and symptomatic. Then a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in City Hall, she asked for a few words with Dan White, just sacked by the then mayor, George Moscone, as city supervisor. “But she’s also tough as nails. CIA records show that the information came from numerous sources, including CIA-collected signals intelligence, intelligence obtained by foreign governments, and non-coercive CIA interrogation. She said she believed that the request was "a potential effort to intimidate [Intelligence Committee] staff. Obama has deployed drone strikes that have not only killed terrorists, but also hundreds of innocent civilians. "[73], Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, himself a victim of torture while a prisoner of war in Vietnam,[98] said in a speech following Feinstein's presentation on the Senate floor that he supported the release of the report, and that those responsible for the interrogation policy had "stained our national honor, did much harm and little practical good. Internally, CIA officers regularly called into question the effectiveness of the CIA’s interrogation techniques, noting how the techniques failed to elicit detainee cooperation or produce accurate intelligence. She is upset over the alleged intrusion into the privacy of her own staff.

Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. The CIA further represented that intelligence from these techniques “saved lives” and loss of the authority to use the interrogation techniques would result in the deaths of Americans. [8][9][10], The report details actions by CIA officials, including torturing prisoners, providing misleading or false information about classified CIA programs to the President, Department of Justice, Congress, and the media, impeding government oversight and internal criticism, and mismanaging the program. But will political realism sell at the box office? A look at California’s November ballot propositions. The CIA kept incomplete records of their detainees, so it is unclear if 119 is a complete count. "[1]:66 of 499[71], Personnel at the black site called "Detention Site GREEN" in the report also raised concerns that enhanced interrogation technique application at the site was "approach[ing] the legal limit." CIA detainees were subjected to coercive interrogation techniques that had not been approved by the Department of Justice or had not been authorized by CIA Headquarters. Inquiry", "CIA accused: Senator sees torture probe meddling", "C.I.A. In World War II, U.S. bombs killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Germany and Japan. Tuesday’s blast at the CIA, for instance, came in spite of her long record of defending America’s intelligence community, including its use of drones under Barack Obama. The CIA failed to adequately evaluate the effectiveness of its enhanced interrogation techniques. [3] Citing the Attorney General investigation as their reason, the Republican minority of the SSCI withdrew their participation from the investigation in September 2009.