The just-declassified Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s detention and enhanced interrogation program found that torture “was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees,” with numerous CIA officials repeatedly warning that it failed to produce accurate intelligence. “The CIA inaccurately claimed that specific, otherwise unavailable information was acquired from a CIA detainee ‘as a result’ of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques, when in fact the information was either: (1) corroborative of information that was already available to the CIA or other elements of the U.S. Intelligence Community from sources other than the CIA detainee, and was therefore not ‘otherwise unavailable’; or (2) acquired from the CIA detainee prior to the use of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques.” The CIA therefore mislead the White House, the National Security Council, the Department of Justice, the CIA Office of Inspector General, the Congress, and the public about what it was doing and whether it was at all useful. “The conditions of confinement for CIA detainees were harsher” and the “interrogations of CIA detainees were brutal and far worse than the CIA represented to policymakers and others.” For instance, “at least five CIA detainees were subjected to ‘rectal rehydration’ or rectal feeding…One interrogator told another detainee that he would never go to court, because ‘
The Torture Report
The Torture Report
The Torture Report
The just-declassified Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s detention and enhanced interrogation program found that torture “was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees,” with numerous CIA officials repeatedly warning that it failed to produce accurate intelligence. “The CIA inaccurately claimed that specific, otherwise unavailable information was acquired from a CIA detainee ‘as a result’ of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques, when in fact the information was either: (1) corroborative of information that was already available to the CIA or other elements of the U.S. Intelligence Community from sources other than the CIA detainee, and was therefore not ‘otherwise unavailable’; or (2) acquired from the CIA detainee prior to the use of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques.” The CIA therefore mislead the White House, the National Security Council, the Department of Justice, the CIA Office of Inspector General, the Congress, and the public about what it was doing and whether it was at all useful. “The conditions of confinement for CIA detainees were harsher” and the “interrogations of CIA detainees were brutal and far worse than the CIA represented to policymakers and others.” For instance, “at least five CIA detainees were subjected to ‘rectal rehydration’ or rectal feeding…One interrogator told another detainee that he would never go to court, because ‘