US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program

Post by arh68 » Tue, Dec 09, 2014, 6:43 PM UTC

    CIA attorneys, discussing aspects of the campaign involving off-the-record 
    disclosures, cautioned against attributing the information to the CIA itself.
    One senior attorney stated that the proposed press briefing was "minimally 
    acceptable, but only if not attributed to a CIA official." The CIA attorney 
    continued: "This should be attributed to an 'official knowledgeable' about 
    the program (or some similar obfuscation), but should not be attributed to a 
    CIA or intelligence official.

    Another CIA attorney noted that the draft "makes the [legal] declaration I
    just wrote about the secrecy of the interrogation program a work of fiction.."
    CTC Legal urged that CIA leadership needed to "confront the inconsistency" 
    between CIA court declarations "about how critical it is to keep this 
    information secret" and the CIA "planning to reveal darn near the entire 
    program.

Post by rayiner » Tue, Dec 09, 2014, 6:44 PM UTC

user24 wrote: post #214

rayiner wrote: post #207

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> These same detainees were subsequently placed in rooms with temperatures ranging from 59 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Oh the horror of room temperature.

I dunno, 59 degrees seems quite chilly if you've just been stripped naked and soaked with ice cold water. Note no mention is made of whether the detainees were dried or clothed first either.

Post by misnome » Tue, Dec 09, 2014, 6:45 PM UTC

nraynaud wrote: post #20

kyleblarson wrote: post #8

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I'm pleasantly surprised too. Next on my wish list is for the Nobel Committee to rescind their Obama peace prize. Fingers crossed...

he stopped it.

Post by afarrell » Tue, Dec 09, 2014, 6:45 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #132

willscott wrote: post #61

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The saving grace is that we have a country that was able to admit that it did this. For me, that's hope that we're still in a position to learn from our wrongs, and that the checks-and-balances are still somewhat in-tact.

Until the next 9/11 or Pearl Habour and then everyone just looks the other way for the next ten years. Japanese internment is still rarely talked about and in some states rarely taught in schools(!).

Post by random_rr » Tue, Dec 09, 2014, 6:46 PM UTC

rdtsc wrote: post #25

> Interrogation techniques such as slaps and "wallings" (slamming detainees against a wall) were used in combination, frequently concurrent with sleep deprivation and nudity. Records do not support CIA representations that the CIA initially used an "an open, non-threatening approach," or that interrogations began with the "least coercive technique possible" and escalated to more coercive techniques only as necessary.…