The interrogation techniques put in place by the CIA after 2001 have not yielded information likely to thwart terrorist threats is the main conclusion - controversial - the parliamentary report released today by commission Senate in Washington ..
Since a landmark report declassified and made public thousands of cases of interrogation where torture was used.
Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate committee that worked on the report:
"The actions of the CIA there ten years as a task on our values and our history. The publication of these 500 pages can not erase this task, but it shows our people and the world that America is big enough to admit when she is wrong and be confident enough to learn from his mistakes. "
Barack Obama himself responded to the report, admitting that certain actions were "contrary" to American values. At the beginning of his presidency that torture during interrogations of prisoners had been banned.
Stefan Grobe, Washington:
"The men of the CIA should they be criticized, or decorated as suggested by former Vice President Dick Cheney? This report raises a violent debate here in Washington. The question of whether torture brings results, that is, more security, is controversial, even among experts. "
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