CIA failed to closely evaluate harsh interrogations: report
Published: April 26, 2009
Updated 1 year ago
WASHINGTON – The US Central Intelligence Agency used tough interrogation techniques on suspected Al-Qaeda prisoners for nearly seven years without ever seeking a serious assessment of the effectiveness of its methods, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Citing current and former US officials familiar with the matter, the newspaper said on its website that the failure to conduct a comprehensive examination occurred despite calls to do so as early as 2003.
That year, the CIA inspector general circulated drafts of a report that raised deep concerns about waterboarding and other methods, the paper said.
According to The Times, the report described in general terms the volume of intelligence the interrogation program was producing.
But neither this nor other audits examined the effectiveness of interrogation techniques in detail, or sought to scrutinize assertions by CIA counter-terrorism officials that enhanced interrogation methods were essential to the program’s results, the paper noted.
One report by a former government official, who was not an interrogation expert, was about 10 pages long and amounted to a glowing review of interrogation efforts, The Times said.
“Nobody with expertise or experience in interrogation ever took a rigorous, systematic review of the various techniques — enhanced or otherwise — to see what resulted in the best information,” the paper quoted one unnamed senior US intelligence official as saying.
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They weren’t “Harsh Interrogations.”
They were torture.
I might expect that kind of rank mischaracterization and such affordance of cover to the Bush administration from, say, CNN or AP. But not Raw Story. We can’t force the main streams to belly up and call it what it is. But I would have thought that at least someone like Raw would refuse to print anything but the truth … ON THE FRONT PAGE for goddsake!
detroitmark news people have to protect the idea of objectivity… just like cops have to read people miranda rights and call people ’suspects’ until there is a conviction. otherwise you wind up as fox news.
i wanted to post about how silly it is to not actually provide a lin, title, or aauthor, or date to the LA Times story this article refers to.
i wonder how Raw would feel if some blogger reposted their whole story, appended ‘reported the website Raw Story’, and didnt provide a link, title, author, or date
CIA reportedly declined to closely evaluate harsh interrogations, Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times, 2009 Apr 26.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-interrogate26-2009apr26,0,5771981.story
I think state medical board’s should bring action against these capitalist neo-Nazi doctors of death and insure they never practice again. War crimes trials should also be appropriate. The officials or buddies of these creep who hired them should also be brought to justice, real justice.