Uk, despite a recent damning report by its intelligence and security. Comments from national leaders about the senate report on the cias detention and interrogation program between 2002 and 2009. The obama administration should publicly respond to the latest allegations. In light of the presidents nomination of gina haspel to head the cia, weve made ebooks of the torture report free through weeks end.
Still, it contains more than a few shocking revelations. The cias torture report response council on foreign. Senate torture report foia american civil liberties union. Senate intelligence committee report on cia torture. Senate select committee on intelligence released its study of the cia s detention and interrogation program foreword, findings, and conclusions, and executive summary. Senate cia torture report details ruthless brutality of. Cia director john brennan holds a press conference to address the senate intelligence committees executive summary on torture. The cia corrected its own corrections of the torture. Cia director john brennan comments on the cias interrogation tactics.
The report styled as the torture report is a 2019 american drama film written and directed by scott z. The first argument is that in some important cases involving. The report is 525 pages, heavily redacted, and includes graphic details about the torture techniques used by the cia. Enhanced interrogation techniques or enhanced interrogation is a euphemism for the program of systematic torture of detainees by the central intelligence agency cia, the defense intelligence agency dia and various components of the u. Senate report on cia torture 2014 pdf internet archive. The committee study of the central intelligence agencys detention and interrogation program. The full torture report is the most comprehensive account of the torture program to date. Victims of torture and a public statement by the white house that. What the world is saying about the cia torture report. Senate select committee on intelligence released its study of the cias detention and interrogation program foreword, findings, and conclusions, and executive summary. Senate intelligence committee report on cia torture wikipedia.
December 9, 2014 blog post blog posts represent the views of cfr fellows and staff and not those of cfr, which takes no institutional. The release included redacted versions of the committees executive summary and findings and conclusions, as well as additional and minority views. More from cnn at to license this and other cnnhln content, visit. Cias june 20 response to the ssci study on the former detention and interrogation program pdf 5. Please find enclosed a report on the findings and recommendations of the international committee of the red cross following its visits to fourteen high value detainees transferred to guantanamo in september 2006. At best it can help readers to avoid the charactt risiic miatake s of poor interrogator s4 ito purpose io to provide guidelines for kubark.
Key takeaways from the cia torture report human rights first. Hall, tim blake nelson, corey stoll, maura tierney and jon hamm. Cia torture unredacted is a groundbreaking study of the cias detention programme. While the press is scrambling to read through and distill the most important cia torture report findings from the 6,700page doorstopper released tuesday from which were all. President obama on tuesday addressed the senate report that details what he called sometimes brutal interrogation techniques, and acknowledged that the revelations could put americans overseas at risk in an interview with telemundo, which was partially carried by sister network nbc, the president said the. The cias official response to the committee study agrees with the committee, but notably goes further to suggest that senior cia officers should also have been held accountable for the misdeeds of cia officers. The cia released its response to the senate intelligence committees report about the agencys detention and interrogation program.
Cia fact sheet regarding the ssci study on the former. The global reaction to the reports release has been muted, possibly due to the fact that before the release of the report, substantial amounts of information about the united states use of torture and other cruel interrogation methods had already been made public, including a cia inspector general report, and a senate armed services. An exhaustive report by the senate intelligence committee found the cia tortured suspected terrorists in a brutal and mismanaged program. The cias secret programme of abductions and brutal interrogations of terrorism suspects was ineffective and saw dozens of people subjected to. The report uses firsthand accounts, internal bush administration memos, prisoners memories and the 2014 senate intelligence committee report to analyze the interrogation program. Armed forces at black sites around the world, including bagram, guantanamo bay, and abu ghraib, authorized by. Enhanced interrogation techniques every crs report.
The best way to cut through the cia fog is for the government to declassify and release the senate torture report. Cia methods brutal, worse than communicated leaks from the lengthy and controversial senate report on bushera torture highlight the. The cia has its own responses to the report, currently listed on its. The report was released today by the senate intelligence committee. Revenge versus rapport american psychological association.
Of the 20 cases the ssci report cites to show the cia program was ineffective, the agency. Slidepdf the first suspension occurred in may 2004 in response to. Enhanced interrogation techniques amnesty international usa. Burns and starring adam driver, annette bening, ted levine, michael c. The official senate cia torture report stanford libraries. The official senate cia torture report our mission free government information fgi is a place for initiating dialogue and building consensus among the various players libraries, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, researchers, journalists, etc. According to the senate committees findings released on tuesday, the enhanced interrogation. The executive summary of the senate intelligence committees report on cia torture was released on tuesday morning. Us senate report on cia detention interrogation program.
Cia responds to senate report on torture with fact sheet the following was released tuesday by the cia in response to the senate intelligence committee report. Senate intelligence committee study on cia detention and. Cia responds to horrifying torture report business insider. The cia has for over a year taken issue with the senate intelligence committees 6,700page report on the agencys torture program, which among other things, claims the cia mismanaged and abused its interrogation authorities, subjected detainees to torturous interrogation methods and misled congress, the justice department and the white.
The cia attacks the senates published findings on torture, a report that was the result of six years of work by daniel jones. In a response to todays report, several former cia directors argue that the cia interrogation program saved thousands of lives by helping. Cia s june 20 response to the ssci study on the former detention and interrogation program pdf 5. Getty imageswin mcnamee the director of the cia has issued a statement in response to the senate intelligence committees release of the cia torture report early. Watch video of feinsteins remarks here what the report shows, according to its introduction. In written answers to the committee about her time at the cia counterterrorism center, which operated the torture program, haspel would not give. Gina haspel stonewalls on discussing her role in cia torture. President obama says brutal cia tactics were overzealous response to 911. Senate intelligence committee to release part of 6,000page report on the spy agencys torture program. The socalled torture report released by the senate this week contains only a fraction of the findings on how the cia aimed to gather intelligence from detainees through interrogation. Cias june 20 response to the ssci study on the former. The report says the agency routinely misled the white house and congress about the information it obtained from the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects. The study found that american torture was not confined to a handful of. The plot follows staffer daniel jones and the senate intelligence committee as they investigate the cias use of torture following the september 11 attacks.
Senate democrats release scathing cia torture report. The cia also released a summary of its response to the ssci report rebutting many of the findings. Torture report describes cia interrogation program time. In response to evidence that the cia misled the ssci about the interrogation program and destroyed. On page 14 of the 6 page cia response, the cia writes.
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