Civic2000 Supercharged December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 CIA employed interrogation techniques "far worse and brutal" than it admitted, investigation reveals. A US Senate report on harsh techniques employed to interrogate "terror" suspects post-9/11 attacks has condemned the CIA for brutality and deception. The heavily redacted 480-page report - published on Tuesday - covered the treatment of around 100 suspects rounded up by US operatives between 2001 and 2009 on terrorism charges. The full 6,200-page report remains classified. Ahead of the publication of the report, the US had tightened security at its embassies across the globe. Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein said the techniques used by the CIA were "far more brutal than people were led to believe" and that "coercive techniques regularly resulted in fabricated information" from detainees. "There are those who will seize upon the report and say see what the Americans did? And they will try to use it to justify evil actions or incite more violence," said Feinstein. "We can't prevent that, but history will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again." The report said harsh CIA interrogations produced much bad information, including a fake story about al-Qaeda recruiting African-Americans. It said the interrogations were ineffective and never produced information that led to foiling of "imminent terror threat". The report followed a five-year investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee into the programme. The CIA maintained the harsh techniques were effective and foiled terrorist plots. The report said the CIA misled the public and policymakers about the programme, much of which was developed, operated and assessed by two outside contractors. Threats and sleep deprivation The tactics discussed in the document include threats that Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a suspect in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, would have his mother "brought before him and sexually abused." He was also threatened with a power drill. The report said some detainees were forced to stay awake for over a week at a time, and that several detainees suffered from "hallucinations, paranoia, insomnia and attempts at self-harm and self-mutilation." Reacting to the report, US President Barack Obama said the CIA actions "were contrary to our values". "I hope that today’s report can help us leave these techniques where they belong - in the past. Today is also a reminder that upholding the values we profess doesn’t make us weaker, it makes us stronger and that the United States of America will remain the greatest force for freedom and human dignity that the world has ever known," he said in a statement. The enhanced interrogation programme was dismantled by Obama in 2009. Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane, reporting from outside the White House in Washington DC, said the aim of the report was to guarantee that torture was never used again in any sort of covert programme. "But it is not exactly clear why the Senate has that confidence. Remember, no one was prosecuted for the programme," said Culhane. Another Al Jazeera correspondent, Kimberly Halkett, reporting from Capitol Hill in Washington DC, said it was unclear what Congress would do next. "It is hard to say what Congress will do, because Congress had plenty of opportunities to do something and yet did not," said Halkett. Amnesty International said the report makes clear that the CIA was acting unlawfully "from day one" and its brutal interrogations were not a rogue operation. Steven Hawkins, executive director of Amnesty's US branch, said the programme "gave the green light to commit the crimes under international law of torture and enforced disappearance -- with impunity. It's time for accountability, including a full investigation, prosecutions and remedy for victims." Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth said the report "shows the repeated claims that harsh measures were needed to protect Americans are fiction." He noted that the Obama administration had ended many of the practices described in graphic detail in the report. But Roth added: "Unless this important truth-telling process leads to prosecution of the officials responsible, torture will remain a 'policy option' for future presidents." CIA TECHNIQUES Water boarding (simulated drowning) Sleep deprivation Confinement in small places Slapping detainees Threatening with death Unnecessary "rectal feeding" or "rectal hydration" http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/12/us-releases-cia-torture-report-2014129122456718264.html Source: Al Jazeera and agencies ↡ Advertisement 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadX Moderator December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 terrible....now who the bully being alive somewhat worse if u think of it cf those beheaded... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enye Hypersonic December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 Do you really believe if ISD calls someone up, they treat him lim kopi in the room? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadX Moderator December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 Do you really believe if ISD calls someone up, they treat him lim kopi in the room? 'would that be black or white....sir' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camrysfa Turbocharged December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 what is rectal feeding? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadX Moderator December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 what is rectal feeding? sth like a colonic lavage Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camrysfa Turbocharged December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 sth like a colonic lavage pls lah, use some words a detainee can undertstand , hehe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadX Moderator December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 pls lah, use some words a detainee can undertstand , hehe ok shove water up your ass until you feel like exploding...keke and you are upside down... imagine you fart.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baal Supersonic December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 secret service all sama sama. Also understand from BBC that what is de-classified is only the tip of the iceberg (few hundred pages) from the few thousand pages report... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baal Supersonic December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 i believe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldbug 6th Gear December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 the senate select committee should spend a week embedded in a unit in Afghanistan 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coolad 5th Gear December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 act gentlemanly or conducting oneself with integrity with terrorists is asking for one's ass to be wack big time... its a dirty war.. u dun play fair with pple who totally disregard rules of engagements... its nice and easy tokking abit human rights when sitting behind a desk in an AC office... 1 week patrolling in Iraq or Afghan for the senate .. see if they tok so much rubbish after tat 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1fast1 Supersonic December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 Do you really believe if ISD calls someone up, they treat him lim kopi in the room? No need to assume anything, there's a well-written account of exactly what happens (or at least used to happen) in ISD detention. Problem is, the work is banned and the writer in exile. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1fast1 Supersonic December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 BTW, somewhat related to the topic - who else is watching the latest season of Homeland? It's awesome! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxus-MIFA9 Supersonic December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 When we caned Michael Fay, they said we are un-civlised ... :angry: Now they torture others, what name to call them ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coolad 5th Gear December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 BTW, somewhat related to the topic - who else is watching the latest season of Homeland? It's awesome! The US ambassador sibeh power... more decisive than the CIA director Lockhart... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Getzsfv 5th Gear December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 act gentlemanly or conducting oneself with integrity with terrorists is asking for one's ass to be wack big time... its a dirty war.. u dun play fair with pple who totally disregard rules of engagements... its nice and easy tokking abit human rights when sitting behind a desk in an AC office... 1 week patrolling in Iraq or Afghan for the senate .. see if they tok so much rubbish after tat u walk in iraq or afghan before? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enye Hypersonic December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 'would that be black or white....sir' actually i prefer jia jia liang teh since need to stay up all night to talk to them in front of a camera ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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