The 500-page United States Select Committee on Intelligence’s damning report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s torture tactics lists numerous instances of rights violations. While it is difficult to point out every ghastly detail here, lists at least 9 instances He spent 266 hours inside coffin-size confinement box Detainee was made to wear a diaper; exposed to dangerously loud music Detainees were shackled to the walls, kept in darkness, given buckets for […]

Washington:  The State Department has endorsed the broad conclusions of a harshly critical Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation and detention practices after the 9/11 attacks that accuses the agency of brutally treating terror suspects and misleading Congress, according to a White House document. “This report tells a story of which no American is proud,” says the four-page document, which contains the State Department’s preliminary proposed talking points in response […]

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 years — concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance of plots and prisoners, and taking credit for critical pieces of intelligence that detainees had in fact surrendered before they were subjected to harsh techniques. The report, built around detailed chronologies of […]