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- 17 Disgraceful Facts Buried In The Senate’s 600 Page Torture Report
17 Disgraceful Facts Buried In The Senate’s 600 Page Torture Report
ThinkProgress
by Igor Volsky Posted on December 9, 2014
Examples: "The two psychologists who helped the CIA create the torture techniques earned over $81 million.", "CIA officers threatened to kill and rape detainees’ mothers."
- 2012 Senate Torture Report and CIA Reply - FOIA
The ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit demanding the CIA release three reports about its post-9/11 program of rendition, secret detention, and torture of detainees. The first is a 6,000-page report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which was adopted by the committee in December 2012. The second is a CIA report in response, defending the agency's actions. The third is a report commissioned by former CIA Director Leon Panetta, which is reportedly consistent with the SSCI investigative report findings, but contradicts the CIA’s response to the SSCI.
- C.I.A. Torture Detailed in Newly Disclosed Documents
Sheri Fink, James Risen, Charlie Savage, NY Times, Jan. 19, 2017 Batches of newly disclosed documents about the Central Intelligence Agency’s defunct torture program are providing new details about its practices of slamming terrorism suspects into walls, confining them in coffinlike boxes and subjecting them to waterboarding — as well as internal disputes over whether two psychologists who designed the program were competent.
- CIA torture research
Cross-reference
- PBS Frontline - Secrets, Politics and Torture (55 min)
May 19, 2015
- PBS Frontline - Why You Never Saw The CIA’s Interrogation Tapes
Why You Never Saw The CIA’s Interrogation Tapes May 19, 2015, by Patrice Taddonio
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program
Findings and Conclusions, Executive Summary. Approved, December 13, 2012; Updated for Release, April 3, 2014; Declassification Revisions, December 3, 2014
- State of Things - Formerly-Incarcerated CIA Whistleblower Continues To Speak Out
Formerly-Incarcerated CIA Whistleblower Continues To Speak Out By Anita Rao & Frank Stasio, October 27, 2015 "John Kiriakou spent 14 years in the CIA as an analyst and counterterrorism officer. At one-point he was responsible for leading the team that found Abu Zubaydah, one of the highest ranking al-Qaeda officers at the time. "But Kiriakou’s career has become defined by a decision he made after he left the CIA. In 2007, he became the first CIA official to publicly acknowledge the agency’s use of waterboarding."
- Tim Weiner - Why the Torture Report Won’t Change Anything
Why the Torture Report Won’t Change Anything
Tim Weiner, December 16, 2014 | This article appeared in the January 5, 2015 edition of The Nation.
At most, it only further proves the incompatibility of a secret intelligence service and an open democracy.