Headline Roundup December 9, 2014
Response to CIA Torture Report
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The director of the CIA insisted Tuesday that US agents' use of brutal interrogation techniques against Al-Qaeda suspects helped prevent attacks, in the wake of a critical Senate report.
John Brennan admitted that mistakes had been made in the years following the September 11, 2001 attacks on US cities.
But he said the Central Intelligence Agency's own review found that harsh interrogations "did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives."
This is disputed in the Senate report, a redacted version of a review that the...
BBC News
The public has yet to see the Senate Intelligence committee report on the rendition, detention and interrogation practices of the George W Bush administration, so its actual contents are currently the province of rumours and leaks.
With the release of its 480-page executive summary said to come on Tuesday, however, the arguments over its implications are already in full swing.
In an article in Monday's New York Times, Peter Baker says that the two-year-old report details the "brutal techniques" - considered torture by critics - the government employed on suspected...
HuffPost
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a 500-page summary Tuesday of its report on the Central Intelligence Agency's torture program following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The report, a result of a five-year investigation, details the gruesome techniques and systemic failures of the CIA's post-9/11 practices.
President Barack Obama said the revelations bring light to a "troubling" program involving practices that were "contrary to our values" in a statement following the release.
"That is why I unequivocally banned torture when I took office, because one of our most effective tools...
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