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kentuck

(111,056 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 06:16 PM Dec 2014

A History of the C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/09/world/timeline-of-cias-secret-interrogation-program.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000

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The Central Intelligence Agency used contentious interrogation techniques, including waterboarding and sleep deprivation, on dozens of the 119 men it detained in secret prisons between 2002 and 2008. A newly released report by the Senate Intelligence Committee found that the agency routinely misled the White House and Congress about the program.

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A History of the C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program (Original Post) kentuck Dec 2014 OP
Thank you for this. H2O Man Dec 2014 #1
A short history nichomachus Dec 2014 #2
K&R LeftInTX Dec 2014 #3

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
2. A short history
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 06:19 PM
Dec 2014

The CIA's atrocities started within days of its being founded. They have been going on for decades. It's not a good organization gone bad. It's been bad since the get-go.

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