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Damage Control: CIA chief challenges torture report claims, defends Bush-era tactics

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Published on Dec 11, 2014

The head of the CIA, John Brennan, has held a news conference, seeking to defend his agency in the wake of damning torture revelations. RT’s Gayane Chichakyan reports.

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Senate Releases CIA Torture Report

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Senate Report Says Torture Program Was More Gruesome, Widespread Than CIA Claimed Posted: Updated:

By    ryan@huffingtonpost.com

WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released the highly anticipated 500-page summary of its report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, providing a sobering glimpse into one of the darkest chapters in the U.S. government’s history.

In the report, a product of a 5-year investigation, Senate investigators reveal sordid details of the systemic and individual failures by the agency personnel who ran the “enhanced interrogation program” — the government’s euphemism for systematic torture — during the George W. Bush administration. The program involved capturing terrorism suspects and shipping them to secret overseas prisons, where they were subjected to techniques such as waterboarding . . . Read Complete Report

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