WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a program that was “far more brutal than people were led to believe.”
That’s how Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, describes the CIA’s methods of interrogating terror suspects at secret overseas prisons in the aftermath of 9/11. Her panel released its report on those tactics.
President Barack Obama says the practices “did significant damage to America’s standing in the world.”
The report cites CIA cables and other documents to reject the central justification for the use of torture — that it prevented terror plots and saved American lives.
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