10 Things You Should Know About The
CIA’s Torture Program
Lance David LeClaire December 15, 2014
In 2009, one of Barack Obama’s first official acts as President was to ban
“enhanced interrogation techniques.” In December 2014, a Senate Committee
released a summary of a larger (still classified) report entitled: “The Committee
Summary of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation
Program.”
The bombshell report revealed that the American government had approved the
torture of prisoners, some of whom were wrongfully imprisoned and held without
due process or even public acknowledgment. An earlier report found that some
detainees were held indefinitely at least in part because the CIA feared they would
talk about the circumstances of their detention.
When we allow fear and uncertainty to drive our policy, the consequences can
haunt us forever. In the saddest news of all, over a quarter of the world’s nations
helped run the program.
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