U.S. Senate Releases Its CIA Torture Report (Full Coverage)

Senate Torture Report Condemns C.I.A. Interrogation Program -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — A scathing report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday found that the Central Intelligence Agency routinely misled the White House and Congress about the information it obtained from the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects, and that its methods were more brutal than the C.I.A. acknowledged either to Bush administration officials or to the public.

The long-delayed report, which took five years to produce and is based on more than six million internal agency documents, is a sweeping indictment of the C.I.A.'s operation and oversight of a program carried out by agency officials and contractors in secret prisons around the world in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It also provides a macabre accounting of some of the grisliest techniques that the C.I.A. used to torture and imprison terrorism suspects.

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WNU Editor: The full U.S. Senate CIA Report is here.

U.S. Senate Torture Report To Be Released Tuesday. U.S. Beefs Up Security Abroad

Impending CIA Interrogation Report Creates Fear of Violence -- ABC News

U.S. embassies around the world are bracing for a potentially explosive report about to be released that details what the CIA did to terror suspects in the days after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and the fear is that its release could threaten American lives.

The report, due to be released Tuesday by the Senate, is described as shocking in its very graphic descriptions of secret interrogations, including some details that have never been heard before.

All U.S. facilities around the world are being urged to review security and brace for the reaction, with concern particularly high in areas where there are hot spots, in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Is President Obama 'Back-Tracking' On The Use Of Torture?

The Geneva plaza of the United Nations, whose treaty the White House is debating. Credit Denis Balibouse/Reuters

Obama Could Reaffirm a Bush-Era Reading of a Treaty on Torture -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — When the Bush administration revealed in 2005 that it was secretly interpreting a treaty ban on “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” as not applying to C.I.A. and military prisons overseas, Barack Obama, then a newly elected Democratic senator from Illinois, joined in a bipartisan protest.

Mr. Obama supported legislation to make it clear that American officials were legally barred from using cruelty anywhere in the world. And in a Senate speech, he said enacting such a statute “acknowledges and confirms existing obligations” under the treaty, the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

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My Comment: It looks like someone within the administration is not happy with where this discussion is going .... and leaked the news to the New York Times. I personally doubt that President Obama is going to reveres a position that he has been steadfast on for his entire political life .... but it is also clear that there is a debate right now within the administration to revisit this policy. But what I would like to know is .... why the debate now? What do they know that they are not telling us?

President Obama: After 9/11, 'We Tortured Some Folks'

Obama Says That After 9/11, 'We Tortured Some Folks -- Reuters

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday the CIA "tortured some folks" after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that the White House had handed over to Congress a report about an investigation into "enhanced interrogation techniques."

"We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values," Obama told a White House news conference.

Obama's comment was a reaffirmation of his decision to ban the use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding shortly after he took office in January 2009.

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My Comment: So .... one of the worse kept secrets is now public .... but is the "outcry" justified? My memories of 9/11 are very vivid .... I had to be in New York city on September 22, 2001 ... I still went .... and the memory of that smouldering ruin is still in my mind. After the attack my friends in Russia and China and everywhere else were badgering me every hour .... asking me questions such as .... what is going to happen, who did it, will there be more attacks, what is the U.S. going to do? I knew that the U.S. was going to respond .... everyone knew that .... but I told everyone that the Americans had "taken their gloves off" .... and it would be best to leave them alone but help them if requested.

"They had taken their gloves off" .... everyone knew what I meant by that. The U.S. was going to do everything in it's power to find the perpetrators of this crime .... and no one cared on how it was done.

Today .... we do care .... or at least some in power do. They will pontificate and look serious and say that this is not what America does .... but I do remember what happened after 9/11 .... and I can easily predict the following. If another 9/11 hits the U.S. .... or something worse .... President Obama will be the first one saying to everyone .... "We are taking our gloves off".