The cias use of its enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees. Enhanced interrogation, the report on rendition, detention. The report was released today by the senate intelligence committee. Source document contributed to documentcloud by eyder peralta npr.
Dec 09, 2014 the central intelligence agency s use of enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees, a senate report claims. The full report should be used by the central intelligence agency and. The report uncovers startling details about the cia detention and interrogation program and raises critical questions about intelligence operations and oversight. A damning report published by senate democrats claims cia leadership misled both congress and the white house about the effectiveness and severity of. Read cnns cia torture report fast facts to learn about the us senate select committee on intelligences report on the cias detention and interrogation program. Dec 11, 2014 the cia director appeared in public and took questions on the cia s enhanced interrogation methods for the first time since the senate intelligence committee released its report earlier this week. The senate intelligence committee released a report on bush era torture tactics today. Dec 09, 2014 thirteen enhanced interrogation techniques interrogation methods are at the center of the senate intelligence committee report about the cias use of harsh interrogation tactics after. Enhanced interrogation techniques amnesty international usa. Enhanced interrogation explained the cias detention and interrogation program allowed the use of socalled enhanced interrogation techniques on detainees captured after 911. He claims that the cias inspector general report comes to the same conclusion, that it cant name one piece of actionable intelligence that came from enhanced interrogation techniques. The report looks at investigation into cias enhanced.
Cia declassifies new documents on enhanced interrogation. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Report says cia misled congress, white house on interrogation. Pdf during the war on terror, the bush administration authorized the us central. This medical participation in enhanced interrogation represents a failure by the physicians involved, and by the oms institutionally,toupholdethicalmedicalvalues. Dec 10, 2014 according to the report, cia attorneys analyzed the hamdan decision, noting that it could have a significant impact on current cia interrogation practices. Mar 18, 2014 a large section of the intelligence committee report is devoted to the interrogation of abu zubaydah, according to al jazeeras sources. Cia director george tenet issued formal guidelines for interrogations and conditions of confinement at detention sites in january 2003, by which time 40. Cia rdp9ec1 1r8001500017 wic final report january 1984 rv reliability, enhancement.
Foia documents related to the former detention and interrogation program 6541535 rippub 4 june. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america kindle edition by mitchell, james e. Creators of the cias enhanced interrogation program to. Court calls us enhanced interrogation techniques torture. President barack obama banned enhanced interrogation techniques in 2009, and the senate intelligence committee released a scathing report on the cia program, using code names for mitchell and jessen, in 2014. Cia torture architect breaks silence to defend enhanced. Two contract psychologists devised the cias enhanced interrogation techniques and played a central role in the. Ts nf the cia has consistently represented that abu zubaydah stated that the cia s enhanced interrogation techniques were necessary to gain his cooperation. Senate torture report foia american civil liberties union. Apr 18, 2014 cia torture architect breaks silence to defend enhanced interrogation this article is more than 6 years old james mitchell highly skeptical of senate report on cia torture. Feinstein statement on cia detention, interrogation report.
The executive summary of the senate intelligence committees report on cia torture was released on tuesday morning. In response to evidence that the cia misled the ssci about the interrogation program and destroyed. Ciardp9ec1 1r8001500017 wic final report january 1984 rv reliability, enhancement. Abu zubaydah was the first highvalue detainee captured after 911 and the first subjected to the agencys enhanced interrogation program, and claims about his case were later used by the bush administration to justify new guidelines for those. Revenge versus rapport american psychological association. Dec 09, 2014 the senate intelligence committee report says the cia s detention and interrogation program was far more brutal than the agency led policymakers and the american public to believe. Aug 08, 2017 creators of the cias enhanced interrogation program to face trial. The committee will make those decisions after receiving the executive branch comments.
The twoway psychologists bruce jessen and james mitchell devised a list of brutal methods, including. Armed forces at black sites around the world, including bagram, guantanamo bay, and abu ghraib, authorized by. Mitchell admitted his role in the program to vice news in 2014, but his book, which will be released tuesday, is his comprehensive. Cia central intelligence agency cidt cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment cifa dod counterintelligence field activity ctc cia counterterrorism center dchc dod defense counterintelligence and human intelligence center dod department of defense doj department of justice eits enhanced interrogation techniques. The report found the techniques provided no useful intelligence.
Jan 29, 2015 read cnns cia torture report fast facts to learn about the us senate select committee on intelligences report on the cia s detention and interrogation program. Senate democrats release scathing cia torture report. Central command, shows abu zubaydah, date and location unknown. It was said that mitchell and jessen based their program of enhanced interrogation on learned helplessness. Cia fact sheet regarding the ssci study on the former. The committee study of the central intelligence agencys detention and interrogation program. Cias enhanced interrogation methods employed by the military at guantanamo. How the cias enhanced interrogation techniques became legal after 911 the cias torture techniques10 in totalincreased in severity as one went down the list view. The committee study of the central intelligence agency s detention and interrogation program is a report compiled by the bipartisan united states senate select committee on intelligence ssci about the central intelligence agency cia s detention and interrogation program and its use of various forms of enhanced interrogation techniques in u. Theres a lot more to look into here than just torture. Therefore, zero intelligence reports were disseminated based on information provided by seven of the 39 detainees known to have been subjected to the cias enhanced interrogation techniques.
The report documents a troubling program involving enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects in secret facilities outside the united states, and it. Senate intelligence committee report on cia torture. The central intelligence agency s use of enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees, a senate report claims. Jun 15, 2016 new heavilycensored documents show that at least one cia officer thought the enhanced interrogation tactics the agency used on al qaeda captives were a trainwreck waiting to happen. Dec 09, 2014 the report is the most comprehensive account of interrogation techniques used by the cia after the attacks of sept. Cia misled on interrogation program, senate report says the. Jun 14, 2018 the reports authors compare the interrogation techniques used by the communists later to be taken even further by the cia to the methods used by witchhunters in europe and the american colonies, noting the similarity to those used for obtaining confessions of witchcraft three and four centuries ago. Select committee on intelligences study of the cias detention and interrogation program pdf. The senate intelligence committee report on torture. The investigation which resulted in the report was initially spurred by the revelation that in 2005 the cia had destroyed videotapes of the agencys enhanced interrogations of detainees in. A federal appeals court hearing the case of a guantanamo bay inmate who was subjected to brutal treatment by the cia after being detained following the 911 attacks took the rare step of calling enhanced interrogation techniques torture.
Among other matters, the report describes the evolution of the cia program, the use of the cias socalled enhanced interrogation techniques, and how the cia misrepresented the program to the white house, the department of justice, congress, and the american people. The american psychological associations secret complicity. A list of the enhanced interrogation techniques used by. Senate intelligence committee report on cia torture wikipedia. Cia detainees subjected to the cia s enhanced interrogation techniques provided significant fabricated information on both the second wave plotting and the alghuraba group, the report says. The twoway psychologists bruce jessen and james mitchell devised a. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to. Senate cia torture report details ruthless brutality of. Senate intelligence committee study on cia detention and. Cia misled on interrogation program, senate report says. Aug 31, 2018 the cia began interrogation training more than seven months after taking custody of abu zubaydah, and more than three months after the cia began using its enhanced interrogation techniques. Psychologists behind cia enhanced interrogation program settle detainees lawsuit. Jones, lead investigator for the senate intelligence committees report on the cia s enhanced interrogation program. Cia director calls some interrogation practices abhorrent john brennan addressed the revelations contained in the senate intelligence committees report.
Defenders of enhanced interrogation often justify the use of such techniques based on military necessity and efficacy. Aug 17, 2017 psychologists behind cia enhanced interrogation program settle detainees lawsuit. Cia statements to the committee and later to the public that the cia detained fewer than 100 individuals, and that less than a third of those 100 detainees were. A 2014 senate intelligence committee report condemned the interrogation techniques as brutal and ineffective in providing unique intelligence information by other means. Anyone interested in the fun and games that the cia plays on everyone from politicians to whole nations to corporations to individuals, feel free to read the secret team the cia and its allies in control of the united states and the world by ret. Enhanced interrogation techniques or enhanced interrogation is a euphemism for the program of systematic torture of detainees by the central intelligence agency cia, the defense intelligence agency dia and various components of the u. A report by the senate intelligence committee concludes that the cia misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for. The report will remain classified and is not being released in whole or in part at this time. Tsnf results cia s use of dojapproved enhanced interrogation techniques. Many notable thinkers are, and will continue to be, involved in the debate over the use of eits. The cia represented to the white house, the national security council, the department of justice, the cia office of inspector general, the congress, and the public that the best measure of effectiveness of the cias enhanced interrogation techniques was examples of specific terrorist plots thwarted and specific terrorists captured as a result. Roles of cia physicians in enhanced interrogation and. A cia contractor said saturday that allowing enhanced interrogation techniques many of which are considered to be torture to be used on terrorist detainees remains necessary. Cia detainees who were subjected tothe cias enhanced interrogation techniques.
Foia documents related to the former detention and interrogation program 6541720 rippub 4 june. As zubaydah himself explained with respect to enhanced techniques, brothers who are captured and interrogated are permitted by allah to. Senate report on cia torture 2014 pdf internet archive. The committee study of the central intelligence agency s detention and interrogation program is a report compiled by the bipartisan united states senate select committee on intelligence ssci about the central intelligence agency cias detention and interrogation program and its use of various forms of enhanced interrogation techniques in u. The cia, in a statement responding to the report, acknowledged the agency made mistakes with its detention and interrogation program but disputed claims that the interrogations were not effective. Cia s june 20 response to the ssci study on the former detention and interrogation program pdf 5. Psychologists behind cia enhanced interrogation program. More specifically that they were reverseengineered by psychological consultants mitchell and jessen1 contracted by the cia from the sere programa training program to enable captured military personnel to survive, evade, resist interrogations, and escape if cap.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading enhanced interrogation. The senate select committee on intelligence released the report on rendition, detention, and interrogation in december 2014 detailing the use of enhanced interrogation techniques by the united states after the september 11, 2001 attacks. The report is the most comprehensive account of interrogation techniques used by the cia after the attacks of sept. New heavilycensored documents show that at least one cia officer thought the enhanced interrogation tactics the agency used on al qaeda captives were a. Indeed,oms encouraged physicians at the cia detention sites to support enhanced interrogation by reinterpreting the ethical standard.
The full torture report is the most comprehensive account of the torture program to date. Senate panel releases scathing report on cia interrogations. The enhanced interrogation techniques the cia used on. Jessen, one of the two contract psychologists who designed the cia s enhanced interrogation techniques, spent 10 days in the secret prison near kabul, afghanistan, in november 2002. Mitchell denied this and in an email to me 9 december 2016 referring to his book, enhanced interrogation, he said, for the first time the cia is allowing me to say that i did not base my approach on learned helplessness. Bush administration, central intelligence agency, enhanced interrogation. Watch video of feinsteins remarks here what the report shows, according to its introduction. Ten key passages from the cia report on interrogation. The cia director appeared in public and took questions on the cias enhanced interrogation methods for the first time since the senate intelligence committee released its. Aug 31, 2018 the cia never conducted a comprehensive audit or developed a complete and accurate list of the individuals it had detained or subjected to its enhanced interrogation techniques.
Cias enhanced interrogation techniques had failed to elicit threat information from detainees, from ksm to the cias last detainee, muhammad rahim. The hoffman report, the central intelligence agency, and. Farley last years release of the senate select committee on intelligences report. Dec 09, 2014 the report was released today by the senate intelligence committee. Sep, 2011 he claims that the cias inspector general report comes to the same conclusion, that it cant name one piece of actionable intelligence that came from enhanced interrogation techniques. It was conducted between 2002 and 2009, with the authorization of officials in the bush administrations white house and the department of justice. Inside the cia s black site torture room us news the. Creators of the cia s enhanced interrogation program to. Enhanced interrogation techniques and the risk of criminality. In december 2014, the ssci sent the full torture report to several executive branch agencies. Just look how much legal talk there was involved to justify guantanamo bay. Us senate report on cia detention interrogation program.
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