The CIA repeatedly misled the White House, Congress and the US public over the torture of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists, according to a damning report by the Senate intelligence committee.
In a fiercely critical assessment of the CIA’s use of torture in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the report concluded the agency’s interrogations were “far more brutal” than it had told policy makers or the public and were “not effective”.
Torture did not lead to any intelligence about an “imminent threat” of a terrorist attack – the sort of information that had been used to justify the interrogations, the report said.
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