Senate Report: CIA Misled on Interrogations

An article by Greg Miller published on April 1, 2014, in the Washington Post is entitled "CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says."

Excerpts:

"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 CIA described [its program] repeatedly both to the Department of Justice and eventually to Congress as getting unique, otherwise unobtainable intelligence that helped disrupt terrorist plots and save thousands of lives,” said one U.S. official briefed on the report. “Was that actually true? The answer is no.”

Jagor's Comment::

Now I guess that film director Kathryn Bigelow, Hollywood's reincarnation of  Leni Riefenstahl, will have to remake her pro-torture propaganda film, Zero Dark 30, which showed the torture techniques ["enhanced interrogation," to use the Orwellian Newspeak term] enabled interrogators to obtain information that led to the defeat of Al Qaeda.  

  

The military's trained, professional interrogators knew at the time that torture doesn't work  and that the victims figure out that the only way to make the torture stop is to tell their torturers what they want to hear, not the actual truth. Chapter One of Army Field Manual 34-52 states:

"Experience indicates that the use of force is not necessary to gain the cooperation of sources for interrogation. Therefore, the use of force is a poor technique, as it yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say whatever he thinks the interrogator wants to hear."

But the professional military interrogators were either silenced, sidelined or ignored by the civilians in the George W. Bush administration.  And now, at last, the truth comes out in the Washington Post.