Senate finds CIA brutalized terror suspects for little intelligence gain

McClatchy DC ^ | Dec 9 , 2014 | Jonathan S. Landay and Marisa Taylor

[LeoWindhorse]

The CIA’s use of torture failed to gain any intelligence on imminent terrorist threats, didn’t lead to any high-level terrorists – including Osama bin Laden – produced fabricated information and was far more brutal than the agency has portrayed to policymakers and the public, according to a long-awaited Senate report released Tuesday.

[LeoWindhorse]

Most of the interrogations did work , and the main mistake we made was not killing these people after they had the intel extracted .

America's end will be showing mercy to our mortal enemies.

[Lazamataz]

The CIA’s use of torture failed to gain any intelligence on imminent terrorist threats, didn’t lead to any high-level terrorists – including Osama bin Laden – produced fabricated information and was far more brutal than the agency has portrayed

So?

Getting information is just a bonus, as far as I'm concerned.

[Da Coyote]

“America’s end will be showing mercy to our mortal enemies.”

And a good many congresscritters, MSM idiots, and marshmallow department college “professors” are in that group.

Hopefully, we can address this in a satisfactory manner following CW-II.

[stephenjohnbanker]

LOL

Amen!

[Veggie Todd]

Agree.

[RatRipper]

It is sad when the individuals in the Demcratic Party are biggers liars and threats to our nation that ISIS is. They are fundamentally evil.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” “America’s end will be showing mercy to our mortal enemies.””

Dazz OK.........as long as we kill them first.

[Vigilanteman]

Whether 5% of the interrogations worked or 95% of them worked is beside the point. These jihadis were flying airplanes full of innocent people into buildings full of innocent people.

Preventing that type of tragedy from repeating is worth breaking a few jihadi heads and more.

[Loud Mime]

Feinstein talking about intelligence gains?

[G Larry]

Define “brutalized”.

Were there any marks, scars, or internal injuries?

[Pietro]

There is nothing believable coming out of Wash. these days, its all optics.

[dfwgator]

Horses—t!

[GOJPN]

Torture. It is not a pretty thing. It is ugly and often, possibly inhumane. The Geneva Convention forbids it. I do not believe in it.

Now here is the problem. Let’s make it personal for you.
I have taken and am holding someone you dearly love. A person you are willing die for (some may have a problem with serious commitment like this. What or who are you willing to DIE for?).

I am in your custody.

My operatives are going to slowly and painfully rape and kill this person you love so much.

You have one hour to get me to tell you where your loved one is and how to stop the killing of this loved one.

What is your plan to get me to tell you this information?
You must obey the rules. No waterboarding, sleep deprivation, exposure to cold, humiliation, playing “Freebird” for hours on end and other nasty things.

What is your plan? The clock is ticking.

[RightGeek]

In that case, they should immediately proceed to the executions.

[Boogieman]

What I'm afraid we might be missing, in all of the hubbub of this Senate investigation, is just how much fun it is to torture terrorists. Surely, that must count for something.

[Isabel2010]

Getting information is just a bonus, as far as I’m concerned

Always good to try new tactics on a real person!!

[Skooz]

I break out the blowtorch and make the guy talk.

Period.

[Lazamataz]

My operatives are going to slowly and painfully rape and kill this person you love so much. You have one hour to get me to tell you where your loved one is and how to stop the killing of this loved one. What is your plan to get me to tell you this information? You must obey the rules. No waterboarding, sleep deprivation, exposure to cold, humiliation, playing “Freebird” for hours on end and other nasty things.

I would get on the phone with your operatives, and say "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

[txnativegop]

I love when libs attack an agency in the government, aren’t
they the people who say “good government can do good things”
or some such drivel.

If they have just proven that gov’t is bad, aren’t they, by
extension, also saying they are just as bad since they
favor such an organization?

[A CA Guy]

I think the Democrats particular set of skills consists of giving aid to our enemies and probably offering them BJs.