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As CIA, senators settle feuds, long-awaited 'torture' report imminent
Source: Reuters
As CIA, senators settle feuds, long-awaited 'torture' report imminent
BY MARK HOSENBALL
WASHINGTON Wed Dec 3, 2014 1:51pm EST
(Reuters) - A Senate committee and the CIA have resolved a dispute over redactions in a long-awaited report highly critical of the spy agency's coercive interrogation program, paving the way for the document's likely release early next week, U.S. officials said.
The document's publication is the culmination of years of work by Democrats who control the Senate Intelligence Committee, but who will cede power when the newly elected Republican majority takes over the Senate next month.
The harsh CIA interrogations - which human rights campaigners and many U.S. politicians describe as "torture" - took place under President George W. Bush; they were banned by President Barack Obama. But release of the Senate report is nonetheless expected to touch off a domestic and international political uproar over CIA activities and U.S. security policies.
Officials familiar with the committee's investigation say it concludes that there is no proof that harsh CIA interrogations, which included a simulated drowning technique known as "waterboarding," produced U.S. counter-terrorism breakthroughs that could not have been obtained through non-coercive questioning.
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BY MARK HOSENBALL
WASHINGTON Wed Dec 3, 2014 1:51pm EST
(Reuters) - A Senate committee and the CIA have resolved a dispute over redactions in a long-awaited report highly critical of the spy agency's coercive interrogation program, paving the way for the document's likely release early next week, U.S. officials said.
The document's publication is the culmination of years of work by Democrats who control the Senate Intelligence Committee, but who will cede power when the newly elected Republican majority takes over the Senate next month.
The harsh CIA interrogations - which human rights campaigners and many U.S. politicians describe as "torture" - took place under President George W. Bush; they were banned by President Barack Obama. But release of the Senate report is nonetheless expected to touch off a domestic and international political uproar over CIA activities and U.S. security policies.
Officials familiar with the committee's investigation say it concludes that there is no proof that harsh CIA interrogations, which included a simulated drowning technique known as "waterboarding," produced U.S. counter-terrorism breakthroughs that could not have been obtained through non-coercive questioning.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/03/us-usa-intelligence-torture-idUSKCN0JH28P20141203
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