Interrogation techniques implemented by the CIA after 2001 have not helped to thwart attacks or arrest terrorists: This is the main conclusion - highly controversial - the parliamentary report released today by a Senate committee in Washington ...dropoff window
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 (...) History will judge us on our commitment to a society governed by law, and our will to do fae a horrible truth and say "never again". The instability that we see today e not disappear in the coming months or years. But this relationship is too important to be placed and set aside. "
Obama himself admitted that some actions were "contrary" to American values. Waterboarding techniques, which we see here a simulation, were only the dark side of the iceberg. At the beginning of the Obama presidency that torture during interrogations of prisoners had been banned.
Stefan Grobe, Washington:
"President Bush has apparently been aware of the details of these techniques in 2006. Last weekend he defended the program and took responsibility. Today, he might reconsider its position. "
