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US: Senate Report Slams CIA Torture, Lies
Release Full Study; Investigate Senior Officials
DECEMBER 10, 2014 --- © 2014 Reuters
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• US: Release Torture Report
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Fact Sheet
The Senate report should not be relegated to a shelf or hard drive but be the basis for criminal
investigations on the use of torture by US officials. The failure of the Obama administration to
hold those responsible for torture to account risks leaving torture as a policy option when the
next inevitable security threat strikes.
Kenneth Roth, executive director
(Washington, DC) – The US Senate Intelligence Committee’s report summary on the Centra
Intelligence Agency (CIA) detention and interrogation program is a powerful denunciation of the
agency’s extensive and systematic use of torture, Human Rights Watch said today. The 525-page
partially redacted summary, released on December 9, 2014, is part of a 6,700-page classified report
that the committee has still not indicated it plans to release.
The summary documents numerous misrepresentations the CIA made about the program’s
effectiveness and demonstrates US officials’ knowledge that it was illegal. It underscores the need
for the US government to promptly release the full report, bolster oversight of the CIA, and
investigate and appropriately prosecute the senior officials responsible for the torture program,
Human Rights Watch said.
“The Senate report should not be relegated to a shelf or hard drive but be the basis for criminal
investigations on the use of torture by US officials,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human
Rights Watch. “The failure of the Obama administration to hold those responsible for torture to
account risks leaving torture as a policy option when the next inevitable security threat strikes.”
etcetera ....................
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/10/us-senate-report-slams-cia-torture-lies
Release Full Study; Investigate Senior Officials
DECEMBER 10, 2014 --- © 2014 Reuters
RELATED MATERIALS:
• US: Release Torture Report
DECEMBER 6, 2014
Press release
• USA and Torture: A History of Hypocrisy
DECEMBER 9, 2014
Fact Sheet
The Senate report should not be relegated to a shelf or hard drive but be the basis for criminal
investigations on the use of torture by US officials. The failure of the Obama administration to
hold those responsible for torture to account risks leaving torture as a policy option when the
next inevitable security threat strikes.
Kenneth Roth, executive director
(Washington, DC) – The US Senate Intelligence Committee’s report summary on the Centra
Intelligence Agency (CIA) detention and interrogation program is a powerful denunciation of the
agency’s extensive and systematic use of torture, Human Rights Watch said today. The 525-page
partially redacted summary, released on December 9, 2014, is part of a 6,700-page classified report
that the committee has still not indicated it plans to release.
The summary documents numerous misrepresentations the CIA made about the program’s
effectiveness and demonstrates US officials’ knowledge that it was illegal. It underscores the need
for the US government to promptly release the full report, bolster oversight of the CIA, and
investigate and appropriately prosecute the senior officials responsible for the torture program,
Human Rights Watch said.
“The Senate report should not be relegated to a shelf or hard drive but be the basis for criminal
investigations on the use of torture by US officials,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human
Rights Watch. “The failure of the Obama administration to hold those responsible for torture to
account risks leaving torture as a policy option when the next inevitable security threat strikes.”
etcetera ....................
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/10/us-senate-report-slams-cia-torture-lies
