Senate cia torture report details ruthless brutality of. Victims of torture and a public statement by the white house that. Select committee on intelligences study of the cias detention and interrogation program pdf. Cia s june 20 response to the ssci study on the former detention and interrogation program pdf 5. Senate select committee on intelligence released its study of the cia s detention and interrogation program foreword, findings, and conclusions, and executive summary. Of the 20 cases the ssci report cites to show the cia program was ineffective, the agency. The full torture report is the most comprehensive account of the torture program to date. The committee study of the central intelligence agencys detention and interrogation program. Cia responds to senate report on torture with fact sheet. Uk, despite a recent damning report by its intelligence and security. The report uses firsthand accounts, internal bush administration memos, prisoners memories and the 2014 senate intelligence committee report to analyze the interrogation program. The cia also released a summary of its response to the ssci report rebutting many of the findings. According to the senate committees findings released on tuesday, the enhanced interrogation.
Burns and starring adam driver, annette bening, ted levine, michael c. The release included redacted versions of the committees executive summary and findings and conclusions, as well as additional and minority views. Watch video of feinsteins remarks here what the report shows, according to its introduction. The report found the techniques provided no useful intelligence. The official senate cia torture report stanford libraries. 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. The cias secret programme of abductions and brutal interrogations of terrorism suspects was ineffective and saw dozens of people subjected to. Source document contributed to documentcloud by wilson andrews the new york times. Still, it contains more than a few shocking revelations.
Cia director john brennan comments on the cias interrogation tactics. The cia corrected its own corrections of the torture. On page 14 of the 6 page cia response, the cia writes. Enhanced interrogation techniques every crs report. In december 2014, the ssci sent the full torture report to several executive branch agencies. The cia attacks the senates published findings on torture, a report that was the result of six years of work by daniel jones. Cia director john brennan holds a press conference to address the senate intelligence committees executive summary on torture. Cias june 20 response to the ssci study on the former detention and interrogation program pdf 5. Todays report by the senate select committee on intelligence details one element of our nations response to 911the cias detention and interrogation program, which i. The report styled as the torture report is a 2019 american drama film written and directed by scott z.
Senate intelligence committee report on cia torture wikipedia. Hall, tim blake nelson, corey stoll, maura tierney and jon hamm. Revenge versus rapport american psychological association. Gina haspel stonewalls on discussing her role in cia torture. Torture report describes cia interrogation program time. Senate select committee on intelligence released its study of the cias detention and interrogation program foreword, findings, and conclusions, and executive summary. Slidepdf the first suspension occurred in may 2004 in response to. Senate intelligence committee report on cia torture. 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. December 9, 2014 blog post blog posts represent the views of cfr fellows and staff and not those of cfr, which takes no institutional. 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. Cia responds to horrifying torture report business insider. The report covers the period during which these persons were held in the detention program run by the central intelligence agency.
What the world is saying about the cia torture report. The cias torture report response council on foreign. 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. In response to evidence that the cia misled the ssci about the interrogation program and destroyed. President obama says brutal cia tactics were overzealous response to 911. Senate democrats release scathing cia torture report. The cia has its own responses to the report, currently listed on its. 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 intelligence committee to release part of 6,000page report on the spy agencys torture program. Key takeaways from the cia torture report human rights first. The study found that american torture was not confined to a handful of. Cia methods brutal, worse than communicated leaks from the lengthy and controversial senate report on bushera torture highlight the. Cias june 20 response to the ssci study on the former. Comments from national leaders about the senate report on the cias detention and interrogation program between 2002 and 2009.
In light of the presidents nomination of gina haspel to head the cia, weve made ebooks of the torture report free through weeks end. The obama administration should publicly respond to the latest allegations. Senate report on cia torture 2014 pdf internet archive. Us senate report on cia detention interrogation program. The executive summary of the senate intelligence committees report on cia torture was released on tuesday morning. The plot follows staffer daniel jones and the senate intelligence committee as they investigate the cias use of torture following the september 11 attacks. The cia released its response to the senate intelligence committees report about the agencys detention and interrogation program. 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. 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. Cia fact sheet regarding the ssci study on the former.
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. The report is 525 pages, heavily redacted, and includes graphic details about the torture techniques used by the cia. In a response to todays report, several former cia directors argue that the cia interrogation program saved thousands of lives by helping. In written answers to the committee about her time at the cia counterterrorism center, which operated the torture program, haspel would not give. An exhaustive report by the senate intelligence committee found the cia tortured suspected terrorists in a brutal and mismanaged 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. Cia torture unredacted is a groundbreaking study of the cias detention programme. The report was released today by the senate intelligence committee. 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.
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