"There are some indications that the release of the report could lead to greater risk that is posed to US facilities and individuals all around the world," Earnest told journalists during a press briefing.
The spokesperson underscored that the Obama administration has taken "prudent steps to ensure that the proper security precautions are in place at US facilities around the globe."
The administration strongly supports the release of declassified summary of the torture report despite possible consequences, Earnest stressed.
However, he continued, "there are obviously going to be some limits about what can be said given the classified nature of the program".
The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence spent four years investigating questionable interrogation practices, including waterboarding that CIA was using against terrorist suspects during the administration of George W. Bush.
In April, the so-called torture report was approved for release, but has not been immediately published due to the CIA demands to delete sensitive material from its final version.
[sputniknews.com]
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US report to detail controversial CIA interrogation methods ...
ReplyDeleteGraphic details about sexual threats and other harsh interrogation techniques the CIA meted out to captured militants will be made public on Tuesday in a controversial Senate Intelligence Committee report on the spy agency’s anti-terror tactics.
The report, which the committee’s majority Democrats are expected to release on Tuesday, describes how senior al Qaeda operative Abdel Rahman al Nashiri, suspected mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, was threatened by his interrogators with a buzzing power drill, the sources said. The drill was never actually used on Nashiri. In another instance, the report documents how at least one detainee was sexually threatened with a broomstick, the sources said.
Preparing for a worldwide outcry, and possibly even violence, from the publication of such graphic details, the White House and U.S. intelligence officials said on Monday they had taken steps to shore up security of U.S. facilities worldwide.
“There are some indications that the release of the report could lead to greater risk that is posed to U.S. facilities and individuals all around the world,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
Some interrogation tactics meant to force detainees to divulge information on terrorist plots and cells, went beyond the harsh techniques authorized by White House, CIA and Justice Department lawyers working for President George W. Bush’s Justice Department, according to the sources familiar with the report.
Earnest reiterated that President Barack Obama supports making the document public “so that people around the world and people here at home understand exactly what transpired.”...........http://www.france24.com/en/20141209-usa-report-cia-interrogation-methods-sexual-drill-qaeda/
9/12/14
US-Senatsbericht: Bush lobt CIA-"Patrioten" trotz Foltervorwürfen ...
ReplyDeleteHeute veröffentlicht der US-Senat seinen Bericht über CIA-Verhörmethoden nach "9/11". Im Vorfeld lobte Ex-Präsident George W. Bush den Geheimdienst: Dessen Mitarbeiter seien "wirklich gute Leute".
Nach monatelangen Verzögerungen will der US-Senat am Dienstag seinen vollständigen Untersuchungsbericht über die Misshandlung von Terrorverdächtigen durch die Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 veröffentlichen. Ex-Präsident George W. Bush lobte die CIA im Interview mit dem Fernsehsender CNN: "Hier ist, was ich dazu zu sagen habe: dass wir uns glücklich schätzen können, Männer und Frauen zu haben, die bei der CIA hart für uns arbeiten. Sie sind Patrioten." Falls der Bericht deren Verdienste schmälere, wäre er "ohne Grundlage".
Er habe die Chefs der CIA und deren Stellvertreter sowie viele Agenten gekannt. "Sie sind gute Leute. Wirklich gute Leute. Und wir haben als Nation Glück, dass wir sie haben." Bush erwähnte auch, dass die CIA einen "Gegenbericht" veröffentlichen werde. Bushs damaliger Stellvertreter Dick Cheney sagte der "New York Times", das Programm sei "vollkommen gerechtfertigt" gewesen. So hätten "weitere Massenangriffe" auf die USA verhindert werden können................http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article135167469/Bush-lobt-CIA-Patrioten-trotz-Foltervorwuerfen.html
9/12/14
The director of the CIA insisted Tuesday that US agents' use of brutal interrogation techniques against Al-Qaeda suspects helped prevent attacks, in the wake of a critical Senate report...
ReplyDeleteJohn Brennan admitted that mistakes had been made, but said the Central Intelligence Agency's own review found that harsh interrogations "did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives."
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/117559.aspx
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Πιο «βάναυσες» από ότι είχε γνωστοποιηθεί μέχρι τώρα, χαρακτηρίζονται οι ανακρίσεις υπόπτων για τρομοκρατία που διεξήγαγε η CIA μετά τις επιθέσεις της 11ης Σεπτεμβρίου, στην έκθεση της αμερικανικής Γερουσίας, η σύνοψη της οποίας δημοσιεύτηκε την Τρίτη....
ReplyDeleteΗ περίληψη της έκθεσης έχει έκταση 480 σελίδες ενώ ολόκληρη η αναφορά της Επιτροπής Πληροφοριών της Γερουσίας -η οποία θα παραμείνει απόρρητη- καταμετρά περισσότερες από 6.000 σελίδες και εμπεριέχει τεράστιο όγκο στοιχείων και... ανατριχιαστικών πληροφοριών.
Κατά την παρουσίασή της, η εκπρόσωπος της Επιτροπής και Γερουσιαστής Dianne Feinstein τόνισε ότι υπήρξαν πολλές πιέσεις για τη μη δημοσιοποίηση της έκθεσης, οι οποίες και δημιούργησαν καθυστερήσεις στην αντικειμενική σύνταξή της. Ωστόσο, η Γερουσία αποφάσισε να την βγάλει στο «φως» αφενός για να σταματήσουν δημοσιεύματα που παραπληροφορούν για τα αληθινά συμβάντα, αφετέρου γιατί μεγάλη μερίδα των περίπου 1.000 εργαζομένων της CIA σήμερα, διαφωνούν για τις πρακτικές που εφαρμόστηκαν.
Ειδικότερα, η έκθεση αναφέρει ότι η CIA «παραπλάνησε τον αμερικανικό λαό σχετικά με την αποτελεσματικότητα των "προωθημένων τεχνικών ανάκρισης"» που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν από πράκτορες της μυστικής υπηρεσίας, κατά την προεδρία Μπους, σε περισσότερους από 100 υπόπτους ως τρομοκράτες-μέλη της Αλ Κάιντα, οι οποίοι κρατούνταν σε σε «μαύρους τόπους» εκτός δικαιοδοσίας των ΗΠΑ.
http://www.zougla.gr/kosmos/article/i-cia-paraplanise-gia-to-mege8os-tis-varvarotitas-ton-anakriseon
6/12/14
The CIA carried out "brutal" interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the US, a US Senate report has said...
ReplyDeleteThe summary of the report, compiled by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that the CIA misled Americans about what it was doing.
The information the CIA collected this way failed to secure information that foiled any threats, the report said.
In a statement, the CIA insisted that the interrogations did help save lives.
"The intelligence gained from the programme was critical to our understanding of al-Qaeda and continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day," Director John Brennan said in a statement.
However, the CIA said it acknowledged that there were mistakes in the programme, especially early on when it was unprepared for the scale of the operation to detain and interrogate prisoners................http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30401100
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