The interrogations of CIA detainees were brutal and far worse than the CIA represented to policymakers and others.
- Senate Select Committee Report
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The CIA's secret Rendition and Interrogation Program was hidden from the US public for years before being exposed. Lesser known is the fact that CIA officials also kept the White House, Senate, OIG and other agencies of the US government in the dark about the clandestine operation for years.
Partly inspired by fellow researcher @rebelskum's Steemit archive project, I wish to preserve the major findings of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on the Steemit blockchain.
The Committees findings are damning and the CIA went to great lengths to coverup, delay, suppress, obfuscate and deny inquiries into the program. There are also reports that the newly appointed CIA deputy director, Gina Haspel, detroyed video tape interrogations of detainees while working at a CIA black site in Thailand. In 2014, the CIA openly admitted to hacking into the databases containing the Select Committee's investigation and findings.
For years the CIA's main justification for the rendering and torture (enhanced interrogation) of detainees was that it was necessary to save lives from future terrorist attacks. Those claims were directly refuted by the committee's findings.
The essential findings of the report:
The CIA ran a international torture network
Torture does not produce accurate intelligence
McClatchy - CIA admits it broke into senate computers; senators call for spy chief's ouster
The New Yorker - The Inside War: Dianne Feinstein versus the CIA
The CIA’s use of its enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee Study Of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program
Findings and Conclusions
1: The CIA’s use of its enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees.
2: The CIA's justification for the use of its enhanced interrogation techniques rested on inaccurate claims of their effectiveness.
3: The interrogations of CIA detainees were brutal and far worse than the CIA represented to policymakers and others.
4: The conditions of confinement for CIA detainees were harsher than the CIA had represented to policymakers and others.
5: The CIA repeatedly provided inaccurate information to the Department of Justice, impeding a proper legal analysis of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program.
6: The CIA has actively avoided or impeded congressional oversight of the program.
7: The CIA impeded effective White House oversight and decision-making.
8: The CIA's operation and management of the program complicated, and in some cases impeded, the national security missions of other Executive Branch agencies.
9; The CIA impeded oversight by the CIA's Office of Inspector General.
10: The CIA coordinated the release of classified information to the media, including inaccurate information concerning the effectiveness of the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques.
11: The CIA was unprepared as it began operating its Detention and Interrogation Program more than six months after being granted detention authorities.
12: The CIA's management and operation of its Detention and Interrogation Program was deeply flawed throughout the program's duration, particularly so in 2002 and early 2003.
13: Two contract psychologists devised the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques and played a central role in the operation, assessments, and management of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program. By 2005, the CIA had overwhelmingly outsourced operations related to the program.
14: CIA detainees were subjected to coercive interrogation techniques that had not been approved by the Department of Justice or had not been authorized by CIA Headquarters.
15: The CIA did not conduct a comprehensive or accurate accounting of the number of individuals it detained, and held individuals who did not meet the legal standard for detention. The CIA's claims about the number of detainees held and subjected to its enhanced Interrogation techniques were inaccurate.
16: The CIA failed to adequately evaluate the effectiveness of its enhanced interrogation techniques.
17: The CIA rarely reprimanded or held personnel accountable for serious and significant violations, inappropriate activities, and systemic and individual management failures.
18: The CIA marginalized and ignored numerous internal critiques, criticisms, and objections concerning the operation and management of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program.
19; The CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program was inherently unsustainable and had effectively ended by 2006 due to unauthorized press disclosures, reduced cooperation from other nations, and legal and oversight concerns.
20; The CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program damaged the United States' standing in the world, and resulted in other significant monetary and non-monetary costs.
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The CIA has been doing this since there has been a CIA, and well before that. (see Monarch mind control) I was 15 when I first became aware of it. I saw interviews on PBS with a Bolivian Nun who had been tortured by CIA in the early 1980's, The George H W Bush CIA made Torquemada's inquisition look like a convention of Mother Theresas, and that monster is still alive and not in prison! He also, even ,got into the office of the president. Did you know it is technically illegal for the head of the CIA to run for president?
Diane Feinstein always smelled like CIA to me. If she's acting like she's against them, you can bet it's a ruse. She's so anti-liberty it makes me want to puke.
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Yes, Feinstein was portrayed as some kind of freedom fighter in this deep state pissing contest, but hopefully people can see through that.
Thanks for the input on the CIA history, of course they've been doing this stuff since the beginning as you say.
I think it's important to have government documents detailing their deceit though and it gives a glimpse into the power struggles going on below the surface.
As far as Bush goes, i wasn't aware that the CIA director is barred from being POTUS. How did Bush manage to get around it?
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I suspect the head of the CIA can do as they please in the land of the slaves.
Thanks for archiving these documents in the blockchain.
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Thank you for doing this.
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This is all part of the MK Ultra mind control studies... That how the techniques are discerned. Much of it is based on studies done by Erich Frome and Michael Maccoby (who you may recognize from Pizzagate) that they did on indigenous people in Mexico and Central America. Funny how things are related! In Vietnam to get information we would blindfold 4 or 5 guys and take them up in a chopper. Throw one out and let the others listen to him scream on the way down... They Talked!
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Was MK Ultra a cover for developing torture and interrogation techniques, or just a byproduct of the mind control studies?
I've read about some of the precursor programs such as Kubark interrogation manual and the experiments at McGill University in Montreal. Of course, the CIA claims they closed down these types of studies long ago, but I'm sure you'll agree the CIA still continues their research.
In fact, it seems some of the evidence is right here in the rendition and torture programs.
This @corbettreport video delves into mind control and the case of: Sirhan Sirhan (The RFK assassin)
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MK Ultra specifically was mind control techniques used on Americans (using LSD, sleep deprivation etc.) It was to test the efficacy of the techniques as well as a means of finding methods of counteracting them (for the military).
This is all mostly out of Tavistock and their US subsidiaries (of which McGill in Canada is undoubtedly one) such as Harvard, Stanford, Columbia. The relationship of Tavistock's NGO's, MI6 and CIA are all part of something huge of which MK Ultra and the other torture techniques are just a small part. Rendition is a method of getting rid of political enemies by sending them to "black holes" around the world.
Because of the ban on MK Ultra methods, people are sent to countries where such niceties aren't observed.
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