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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Senate Report Rejects Claim on Hunt for Bin Laden"
Senate Report Rejects Claim on Hunt for Bin LadenBy CHARLIE SAVAGE and JAMES RISEN at the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/world/senate-report-raises-doubts-about-cia-claims-on-hunt-for-osama-bin-laden.html?_r=0
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WASHINGTON Months before the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, the Central Intelligence Agency secretly prepared a public-relations plan that would stress that information gathered from its disputed interrogation program had played a critical role in the hunt. Starting the day after the raid, agency officials in classified briefings made that point to Congress.
But in page after page of previously classified evidence, the Senate Intelligence Committee report on C.I.A. torture, released Tuesday, rejects the notion that torturing detainees contributed to finding Bin Laden a conclusion that was also strongly implied in Zero Dark Thirty, the popular 2012 movie about the hunt for the Qaeda leader.
The vast majority of the intelligence about the Qaeda courier who led the agency to Bin Laden was originally acquired from sources unrelated to the C.I.A.s detention and interrogation program, and the most accurate information acquired from a C.I.A. detainee was provided prior to the C.I.A. subjecting the detainee to the C.I.A.s enhanced interrogation techniques, the Senate report said.
It added that most of the documents, statements and testimony from the C.I.A. regarding a connection between the torture of detainees and the Bin Laden hunt were inaccurate and incongruent with C.I.A. records.
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"Senate Report Rejects Claim on Hunt for Bin Laden" (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2014
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Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)1. Most Americans will skip over this story.
Which is sad when you realize that a great many of them will still believe torture worked!
ReRe
(10,597 posts)2. They are the same ones...
... who believed that Saddam Husein was responsible for 9/11.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)4. K&R.
The makers of the movie ought to apologize and withdraw the movie. It is spreading a falsehood. It is a lie. But it was made to cause people to believe it. That is irresponsible and likely to lead to the US making the same mistakes in the future.