Senate Hands Over Report On CIA’s Brutal Torture Techniques

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. is pursued by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, as she arrives to release a report on the CIA's harsh interrogation te... Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. is pursued by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, as she arrives to release a report on the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques at secret overseas facilities after the 9/11 terror attacks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate investigators have delivered a damning indictment of CIA interrogation practices after the 9/11 attacks, accusing the agency of inflicting pain and suffering on prisoners with tactics that went well beyond legal limits.

The torture report released Tuesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee says the CIA deceived the nation with its insistence that the harsh interrogation tactics had saved lives. It says those claims are unsubstantiated by the CIA’s own records.

The 500-page report represents the executive summary and conclusions from a still-classified 6,700-page full investigation.

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  1. And BTW: Only in Republican Con and Bagger ‘Opposite World’ could you commit illegal spying, torture, war and perjury (as so many pols and their henchmen in the Bush Administration did)…AND YET…believe wholeheartedly that the people who expose it should go to jail.

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