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12/09/2014
Senate Intelligence Committee Summary of CIA's Detention and
Interrogation Program Concludes
CIA Misled Itself, Congress, the President about Lack of
Effectiveness
Committee Details 20 Most Frequent CIA Claims that Torture Stopped
Terrorist Plots, Cites CIA's Own Documents to Show Claims "Wrong in
Fundamental Respects"
Outside Contractors Ran Torture Program, Earned $1800 per Day, $81
Million Overall, Had No Prior Experience in Interrogation, No
Arabic, but Sold CIA on "Hard" Measures
Multiple CIA Officers Protested Program as "Train Wreak", Refused
to Participate, But CIA Directors Tenet, Goss, Hayden Overruled
Criticism and Misled Congress
CIA Inserted Factually Inaccurate Claims into Bush's Daily Brief
and Public Speeches
Washington, DC, December 9, 2014 -- The Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence today released the executive
summary of its long-awaited "Study of the CIA's Detention and
Interrogation Program," describing in more than 500 pages a
dysfunctional agency so unprepared to handle suspected terrorist
detainees after 9/11, that the CIA bought into private contractors'
proposals for torture, and then lied to Congress, President Bush,
the Justice Department, the public, and to itself about the
purported effectiveness of the program.
The Senate release includes a 6-page foreword by committee chair
Diane Feinstein (D-CA), a 19-page list of 20 specific Findings and
Conclusions, and a 499-page Executive Summary which details the
development of the torture program after 9/11. The longest single
section of the Summary, from page 172 to page 400, eviscerates the
CIA's "eight primary CIA effectiveness representations" along with
12 "secondary" ones by showing either there was "no relationship"
between the cited success and detainee information "during or
after" the CIA's use of torture, or that such information was
otherwise available and even obtained prior to the use of
torture.
Including 2,725 footnotes to specific CIA documents, the Senate
report shows a pattern of repeated factual inaccuracies by CIA in
communications with the Justice Department (to get legal cover for
the program), with the White House (including false information
inserted in the President's Daily Brief and one of President Bush's
major speeches), with the Congress (Appendix 3 starting on page 462
provides more than 30 pages of false statements in testimony by
former CIA director Michael Hayden), and even inside the Agency
itself.
The report cites CIA documents showing CIA officers at the secret
detention sites repeatedly protested the torture program -- one
interrogator called the program a "train wreak" [sic] and wrote "I
intend to get the hell off the train before it happens." But
higher-ups, including CIA directors George Tenet, Porter Goss, and
Hayden, overruled objections and kept the program going until
President Obama ended it in 2009. The head of CIA counterterrorism
operations, Jose Rodriguez, even reprimanded CIA officers at one
site for their protests, warning them to refrain from using
"speculative language as to the legality of given activities" in
CIA cables.
Check out today's posting at the National Security Archive
- http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torture_archive/report.html
12/09/2014
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