Senate Panel to Examine CIA Detainee Handling
February 27th, 2009Ahh yes, from the people who fed you box cutters and Building 7: The Authoritative Account of Bush’s Atrocities…
Give me a f*cking break already.
Via: Washington Post:
The Senate intelligence committee is planning an unprecedented review of the CIA’s handling of captured terrorist suspects, drawing back the curtain for the first time on the agency’s use of waterboarding and other interrogation tactics inside secret CIA prisons, congressional sources said yesterday.
The review, which could be announced as early as today, will use official testimony and hundreds of classified documents to piece together an authoritative account of one of the most clandestine — and, to some former and current agency officials, darkest — chapters of the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism war, the officials said.
Lawmakers will try to determine not only how detainees were interrogated, but also whether the CIA’s controversial methods produced useful intelligence, according to three congressional officials briefed on the plans.
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Former CIA leaders have said the use of waterboarding, which simulates drowning, and other harsh measures yielded information that helped prevent a wave of terrorist attacks after Sept. 11, 2001.
