The CIA Torture report essay
Why The CIA Torture Reports Matter
The Senate Intelligence Committee just released a long awaited report on the
CIA’s torture techniques after 9/11. The report has caused tension between the CIA,
Congress, and The White House and there is some concern that the report’s release will spark more antiAmerican sentiment around the world.
So what exactly is in this report? We all know that the CIA was authorized to torture suspected terrorists during this time period. But this newest report found that the
CIA tortured more people in more brutal ways than previously admitted and that they got less information out of these interrogations than they led the public to believe.
Detainees were kept in conditions compared to dungeons, deprived of sleep for up to a week, unnessarily fed rectally and subjected to sexual, physical, and mental abuse. At the time the CIA director was instructed to keep the publically acknowledged number of prisoners at 98, but the report found that at least 119 were detained. 26 of which were wrongfully held. The CIA also grossly underreported the amount of water boarding. The CIA claimed that only three were waterboarded, but the report found evidence suggesting waterboarding was used on more detainees.
They clearly downplayed and even lied about their activities, but it’s the lies they told about their reports that is now being seen as the bigger issue. The reports claim that the CIA’s excessive and brutal torture methods did not produce any information that couldn’t have been obtained through other means. The report discredited 20 different torture cases deemed successful by the CIA. Most of the information extracted through
torture was already given to the CIA from other sources, while other information were just just lies, given by the prisoners to stop the torture.
The report concluded that CIA torture did not produce any information that led to lives being saved. The report also found that the entire program was
The Senate Intelligence Committee just released a long awaited report on the
CIA’s torture techniques after 9/11. The report has caused tension between the CIA,
Congress, and The White House and there is some concern that the report’s release will spark more antiAmerican sentiment around the world.
So what exactly is in this report? We all know that the CIA was authorized to torture suspected terrorists during this time period. But this newest report found that the
CIA tortured more people in more brutal ways than previously admitted and that they got less information out of these interrogations than they led the public to believe.
Detainees were kept in conditions compared to dungeons, deprived of sleep for up to a week, unnessarily fed rectally and subjected to sexual, physical, and mental abuse. At the time the CIA director was instructed to keep the publically acknowledged number of prisoners at 98, but the report found that at least 119 were detained. 26 of which were wrongfully held. The CIA also grossly underreported the amount of water boarding. The CIA claimed that only three were waterboarded, but the report found evidence suggesting waterboarding was used on more detainees.
They clearly downplayed and even lied about their activities, but it’s the lies they told about their reports that is now being seen as the bigger issue. The reports claim that the CIA’s excessive and brutal torture methods did not produce any information that couldn’t have been obtained through other means. The report discredited 20 different torture cases deemed successful by the CIA. Most of the information extracted through
torture was already given to the CIA from other sources, while other information were just just lies, given by the prisoners to stop the torture.
The report concluded that CIA torture did not produce any information that led to lives being saved. The report also found that the entire program was