The Implications of the Torture Report

The Implications of the Torture Report

Tuesday, 16 December 2014 00:00 By Mike Lofgren, Truthout | http://truth-out.org/news/item/28020-the-implications-of-the-torture-report The reaction to the Senate Intelligence Committee's "Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program" is as significant as what the study uncovered about the psychology and methods of those who run the Deep State that rules us.
After years of the Obama administration's foot-dragging, obfuscation and threats, the senate Intelligence Committee's "Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program" has finally flopped onto the senate presiding officer's desk like a landed carp.
The present writer will take as a given the veracity of its three main findings: that the United States engaged in practices both legally and commonly definable as torture; that the actionable intelligence these practices produced was negligible; and that the practices tainted the moral prestige of the United States government in a manner that damaged its foreign policy. These assertions may be taken as true both because of the abundant evidence presented in the report itself and because of the flailing and hysterical reaction by our country's national security elites.

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