CIA was warned that treatment techniques violated international convention

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A classified report issued last year by the CIA's inspector general warned that interrogation procedures approved by the CIA after the Sept. 11 attacks might violate some provisions of the international Convention Against Torture, current and former intelligence officials tell the New York Times for Wednesday page ones... Excerpts...

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The previously undisclosed findings from the report, which was completed in the spring of 2004, reflected deep unease within the CIA about the interrogation procedures, the officials said. A list of 10 techniques authorized early in 2002 for use against suspected terrorists included one known as known as waterboarding, and went well beyond those authorized by the military for use on prisoners of war.

The convention, which was drafted by the United Nations, bars torture, which is defined as the infliction of "severe" physical or mental pain or suffering, and prohibits lesser abuses that fall short of torture if they are "cruel, inhuman or degrading." The United States is a signatory, but with some reservations set when it was ratified by the Senate in 1994.
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The report, by John L. Helgerson, the CIA's inspector general, did not conclude that the techniques constituted torture, which is also prohibited under American law, the officials said. But Helgerson did find, the officials said, that the techniques appeared to constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under the convention.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/CIA_was_warned_by_inspector_general_1108.html

CIA officials have all but said directly that torture doesn't work.

So whose CIA approved this? George Tenet's?

And we all know what kind of wrath HE endured from the Shrub admin...

That is what Dear Leader says.

From democracy now.. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/27/1451229 snip. Lawyer Scott Horton: “Vice President Cheney is the Man Who Unleashed Torture and Promoted it Within Our Military and Our Intelligence Service”

with that snarl on his face, makes it perfectly believable that he encouraged the use of torture. The man can't even appear human when being photographed. He has either a sneer, or a snarl. Regardless of which face he presents to the world, he is a completely amoral, corrupt, arrogant man, who needs to stand trial at the Hague.

He is the very worst of what America is. He has damaged our reputation, and our actions, worldwide. Cheney is the perfect poster boy for the Bush administration.

You can see Bush is trying to destroy the CIA!!!

Bad stretch for the Bushies. The combination of these stories, especially with the rendition and secret jails may cause Cheney to have an "episode."

I don't think he'll be in office come the '06 elections.

A classified report issued last year by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general warned that interrogation procedures approved by the C.I.A. after the Sept. 11 attacks might violate some provisions of the international Convention Against Torture, current and former intelligence officials say.

The previously undisclosed findings from the report, which was completed in the spring of 2004, reflected deep unease within the C.I.A. about the interrogation procedures, the officials said. A list of 10 techniques authorized early in 2002 for use against terror suspects included one known as waterboarding, and went well beyond those authorized by the military for use on prisoners of war.

The convention, which was drafted by the United Nations, bans torture, which is defined as the infliction of "severe" physical or mental pain or suffering, and prohibits lesser abuses that fall short of torture if they are "cruel, inhuman or degrading." The United States is a signatory, but with some reservations set when it was ratified by the Senate in 1994.

The report, by John L. Helgerson, the C.I.A.'s inspector general, did not conclude that the techniques constituted torture, which is also prohibited under American law, the officials said. But Mr. Helgerson did find, the officials said, that the techniques appeared to constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under the convention.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/politics/09detain.html?hp&ex=1131512400&en=50d901027e61366e&ei=5094&partner=homepage

...because they disagreed with the methods being used by the U. S. military and other non-CIA intelligence groups.

Now, what they may have done in Afghanistan is a different story.

This recent article focuses on outsourced military interrogators, draw your own conclusions about intelligence agencies.

"Meet the New Interrogators: Lockheed Martin" by Pratap Chatterjee
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12757