CIA Torture Report: Oversight, by No Remedies Yet: Last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee released its report on the CIA's post 9/11 interrogation program. The report details the inhumane and brutal treatment of detainees, and was not a story the CIA was motivated to tell. Steven Aftergood writes that the Committee report is a remarkable demonstration of the congressional oversight function as it was performed in adverse, unfavorable conditions, as committee questions were ignored and inaccurate information was provided. The most important omission from the report is the absence of any discussion of remedies.https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2014/12/torture-remedies/
FAS in the News
- Dec 11: Washington Post, "Obama Administration Should Be Fully Transparent About Bush-Era Torture"
- Dec 11: Mashable, "Even After The CIA Torture Report, Chances For Reform May Be Slim"
- Dec 10: Scientific American, "Bad Science And 'Folk Psychology' Guided CIA Torture Techniques"
- Dec 9: CNN Money, "Torture Report Reveals CIA Spent $300 Million"
- Dec 7: New York Times, "The CIA's Power To Purge"
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