Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research | December 12, 2014 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: Highlights, Executive Summary The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released its report on the CIA’s “Detention and Interrogation Program” . The complete document consists of a 6000 page report, which remains classified. The committee has released a 525-page unclassified summary version for…

Craig Murray | Daily Mail | 14 Dec 2014 In the summer of 2004, I warned Tony Blair’s Foreign Office that Britain was using intelligence material which had been obtained by the CIA under torture. Two months later I was sacked as the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan on the orders of Downing Street, bringing to…

Ray McGovern | Consortium News | 14 Dec 2014 Exclusive: It’s rare on TV when you see two former senior U.S. officials clashing angrily over something as significant as torture. Usually decorum prevails. But ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern wasn’t going to let the ex-House intelligence oversight chief get away with a bland defense of torture,…

Ray McGovern | Consortium News | 11 Dec 2014 Exclusive: The grim details about the CIA’s torture techniques – from waterboarding to “rectal rehydration” – have overwhelmed the final defenses of the torture apologists. Now the question is what to do with this evidence and how to make sure this behavior doesn’t happen again, says…

Washington’s Blog | 12 Dec 2014 While the torture report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee is very important, it doesn’t address the big scoop regarding torture. Instead, it is the Senate Armed Services Committee’s report that dropped the big bombshell regarding the U.S.  torture program. Senator Levin, commenting on a Armed Services Committee’s report…

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research | December 11, 2014 The words “possible criminal actions” by CIA employees are used in the report. The terms unethical and immoral are mentioned. The criminality of those who ordered these actions at the highest levels of government, however, is not acknowledged. The actions directed against alleged jihadists are categorized as…

Igor Volsky | Think Progress | 9 Dec 2014 The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s extensive use of torture reveals that the agency regularly misled the White House and Congress about the information it had obtained from detainees and used techniques that are far more brutal than it — or former Bush administration…

by David Knight | Infowars.com | December 10, 2014 NDAA bill heads to Senate floor as CIA torture report is released   As Feinstein released her censored report on CIA torture, those on the left who said they wanted Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their minions held accountable have thrown in the towel. And you won’t…

by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | December 10, 2014 CIA adopted Nazi and communist torture techniques   Washington’s Blog notes how the CIA’s torture techniques resemble those used by the Nazis. The Nazis called it “Verschärfte Vernehmung,” German for “enhanced interrogation.” “It’s a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a…