Ron Wyden’s Point-by-Point Smackdown of the CIA’s Defense of Torture
After the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report was released, a group of former CIA directors published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal defending the Agency’s torture policy. In response, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote a new version of the op-ed — one that points out some pretty embarrassing flaws in the CIA directors’ argument.
For example, the CIA defenders claimed that detainees had “received highly effective counter-interrogation training while in al Qaeda training camps,” so they basically had to be tortured. Wyden’s staff notes that there’s no actual evidence of this training in CIA records. When the former directors say the report ignored intelligence of impending al-Qaeda attacks on America, Wyden’s team points out the pages of the report that talk about it.
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