U.S. Senate panel sets goals for CIA probe

[kpete]

Source: Reuters

U.S. Senate panel sets goals for CIA probe
Thu Mar 5, 2009 6:27pm EST

* Inquiry to evaluate intelligence from interrogations

* It will take about one year, and be in secret

* No decision on whether to make findings public

* CIA pledges to cooperate (Adds inquiry to start "soon," aide comments)

By Randall Mikkelsen

WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate inquiry on the CIA's treatment of terrorism suspects will probe the usefulness of intelligence gained through harsh interrogations and whether the agency complied with official legal guidance.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, and Republican Vice Chairman Kit Bond announced on Thursday the scope of the inquiry into the CIA's controversial detention and interrogation program. They said it would take about a year.

In the program launched after the Sept. 11 attacks, suspects were subjected techniques including simulated drowning, or "waterboarding," that were denounced as torture by human rights advocates, some U.S. officials, and international governments.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/leonPanetta/idUSN05357930

[leveymg]

1. What's the point if the public never learns anything? Just another coat of whitewash.

And Feinstein and others can tell us they're "doing something" about the problem. Sure, they're doing something.

[L. Coyote]

2. One year working in SECRET. Oh, they must have a lot to hide!!!!

[Jefferson23]

3. Disgraceful and arrogant, as if they have no obligation to the public

whatsoever.

[EFerrari]

4. It's not a real investigation if the process isn't transparent

and if the results are not public.