Coercive Interrogation Techniques Used By the CIA, Revisited
Remembering the 2014 Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program
Here are excerpts from some of the materials placed into the public domain by the U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence. They are offered without remark:
#1: The Committee finds, based on a review of CIA interrogation records, that the use of the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of obtaining accurate information.
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#3: The interrogations of CIA detainees were brutal and far worse than the CIA had represented to policymakers and others.
#4: The conditions of confinement for CIA detainees were harsher than the CIA had represented to policymakers and others.
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#14: CIA detainees were subjected to coercive interrogation techniques that had not been
approved by the Department of Justice or had not been authorized by CIA Headquarters.
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#17: The CIA rarely reprimanded or held personnel accountable for serious and
significant violations, inappropriate activities, and systemic and individual management
failures.
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#20: The CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program damaged the United States'
standing in the world, and resulted in other significant monetary and non-monetary costs.
Sources:
https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/senate-intelligence-committee-study-on-cia-detention-and-interrogation-program
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