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Senate Report Says Torture Program Was More Gruesome, Widespread Than CIA Claimed Posted: Updated:
By Ali Watkins ali.watkins@huffingtonpost.com RyanGrim 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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