Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ 10 Dec 2014 07:28)
...the intelligence we hoped to acquire was well worth roughing up a small number of detainees in order to secure our safety . Releasing this report only invites more attacks and most unfortunately is politically driven .
can you honestly say the torture listed below is considered "roughing up" ? And you consider yourself a christian...these are acts that no man of god would condone, and all for naught.
the report clearly says that they didn't receive any good intel out of the torture.
Under any common meaning of the term, CIA detainees were tortured," she declared, commanding the Senate floor for an extended accounting of the techniques identified in the investigation.
The report catalogued the use of
ice baths, death threats, shackling in the cold and much more. Three detainees faced the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding. Many developed psychological problems.But the "enhanced interrogation techniques" didn't produce the results that really mattered, the report asserts in its most
controversial conclusion. It cites CIA cables, emails and interview transcripts to rebut the central justification for torture -- that it thwarted terror plots and saved American lives. Earlier this year,
Feinstein accused the CIA of infiltrating Senate computer systems in a dispute over documents as relations between the investigators and the spy agency deteriorated, the issue still sensitive years after Obama ordered a halt to any such interrogation practices upon taking office.
After al-Qaida operative Abu Zubaydah was arrested in Pakistan in 2002, the
CIA received permission to use waterboarding, sleep deprivation, close confinement and other techniques. Agency officials added unauthorized methods, the report says.
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t least five men in CIA detention received "rectal rehydration," a form of feeding through the rectum. The report found no medical necessity for the treatment.
At least three in captivity were told their families would suffer, with CIA officers threatening to harm their children, sexually abuse the mother of one man, and cut the throat of another man's mother.Redha al-Najar, a former Osama bin Laden bodyguard, was the first prisoner there. CIA interrogators found that after a
month of sleep deprivation, he was a "broken man." But the treatment got worse, with officials lowering food rations, shackling him in the cold and giving him a diaper instead of toilet access.Gul Rahman, a suspected extremist, received enhanced interrogation there in late 2002,
shackled to a wall in his cell and forced to rest on a bare concrete floor in only a sweatshirt. The next day he was dead. A CIA review and autopsy found he died of hypothermia.halid Sheikh Mohammed, the Sept. 11 mastermind, received the
waterboarding treatment 183 times. At one point, he was waterboarded for not confirming a "nuclear suitcase" plot the CIA later deemed a scam. Another time, his waterboarding produced a fabricated confession about recruiting black Muslims in Montana.After reviewing 6 million agency documents, investigators said they could find no example of unique, life-saving intelligence gleaned from coercive techniques. The report claims to debunk the CIA's assertion its practices led to bin Laden's killing.