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A classified Senate Intelligence Committee report charges that the Central Intelligence Agency lied to the U.S. public and government for years about its brutal interrogation techniques by hiding the extent of abuse and misleading about the lives this interrogation saves.
This is according to an exclusive Washington Postreport published Tuesday. Citing anonymous U.S. officials familiar with the 6,300 page document, journalists Greg Miller, Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima write that the report shows "a long-standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use -- and later tried to defend -- excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence."
Furthermore, the report details "damning new disclosures about a sprawling network of secret detention facilities, or 'black sites,' that was dismantled by President Obama in 2009," the authors note.
While the Senate Intelligence Committee report was completed over a year ago, it remains secret despite President Obama's previous pledge to declassify the report and widespread calls for its release to the public. Yet, Washington Post sources were able to paint a chilling portrait of its contents, which includes evidence of:
The Senate Intelligence Committee is slated to vote Thursday on whether to declassify the key findings and summary of the report. Christopher Anders, senior legislative counsel to the ACLU in the Washington office, told Common Dreams that the report should be declassified and the CIA should not be given authority to redact information. "The only way we as a country can move beyond torture is to know what happened," he said.
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A classified Senate Intelligence Committee report charges that the Central Intelligence Agency lied to the U.S. public and government for years about its brutal interrogation techniques by hiding the extent of abuse and misleading about the lives this interrogation saves.
This is according to an exclusive Washington Postreport published Tuesday. Citing anonymous U.S. officials familiar with the 6,300 page document, journalists Greg Miller, Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima write that the report shows "a long-standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use -- and later tried to defend -- excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence."
Furthermore, the report details "damning new disclosures about a sprawling network of secret detention facilities, or 'black sites,' that was dismantled by President Obama in 2009," the authors note.
While the Senate Intelligence Committee report was completed over a year ago, it remains secret despite President Obama's previous pledge to declassify the report and widespread calls for its release to the public. Yet, Washington Post sources were able to paint a chilling portrait of its contents, which includes evidence of:
The Senate Intelligence Committee is slated to vote Thursday on whether to declassify the key findings and summary of the report. Christopher Anders, senior legislative counsel to the ACLU in the Washington office, told Common Dreams that the report should be declassified and the CIA should not be given authority to redact information. "The only way we as a country can move beyond torture is to know what happened," he said.
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A classified Senate Intelligence Committee report charges that the Central Intelligence Agency lied to the U.S. public and government for years about its brutal interrogation techniques by hiding the extent of abuse and misleading about the lives this interrogation saves.
This is according to an exclusive Washington Postreport published Tuesday. Citing anonymous U.S. officials familiar with the 6,300 page document, journalists Greg Miller, Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima write that the report shows "a long-standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use -- and later tried to defend -- excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence."
Furthermore, the report details "damning new disclosures about a sprawling network of secret detention facilities, or 'black sites,' that was dismantled by President Obama in 2009," the authors note.
While the Senate Intelligence Committee report was completed over a year ago, it remains secret despite President Obama's previous pledge to declassify the report and widespread calls for its release to the public. Yet, Washington Post sources were able to paint a chilling portrait of its contents, which includes evidence of:
The Senate Intelligence Committee is slated to vote Thursday on whether to declassify the key findings and summary of the report. Christopher Anders, senior legislative counsel to the ACLU in the Washington office, told Common Dreams that the report should be declassified and the CIA should not be given authority to redact information. "The only way we as a country can move beyond torture is to know what happened," he said.
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