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CIA cited Israeli Supreme Court rulings to justify torture, Senate report says

'Israeli example' cited as possible justification for use of torture when interrogating terror suspects 'where there is no other available means to prevent the harm' they might inflict.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Dec. 9, 2014 | 8:19 PM

The scathing report published Tuesday by the United States Senate Intelligence Committee on the CIA's interrogation of terror suspects reveals that the CIA's lawyers used the rulings of Israel's Supreme Court to construct a legal case justifying torture.

According to the 528-page document, a redacted version of the 6,000-page report that remains classified, in November 2001 some CIA officers were concerned they may need legal justification for the interrogation methods they had begun using when questioning Al-Qaida suspects in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.630823?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter