Senate to issue scathing critique of Bush-era 'enhanced interrogation'

A new Senate Intelligence Committee report is lambasting the CIA for misleading Americans about its controversial Bush-era interrogation program, the Washington Post reports.

Citing unnamed officials who have reviewed the still undisclosed document, the Post reports that it alleges the CIA claimed it gained actionable intelligence after using its harshest interrogation techniques, when in fact that information was gained before agents resorted to such measures. CIA officials also tried to conceal the extremity of the agency’s most brutal interrogation techniques, the report says, practices many have decried as torture.

Another section of the report based on what the Post calls “millions of records” says information that led to the 2011 death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had “little, if anything” to do with “enhanced interrogation techniques,” as government officials have called the agency’s most controversial methods.

http://time.com/44635/senate-cia-interrogation/

I still want to see people put on trial for this.

But it's still going on Ben. Read about the forced feeding in Guantanamo Bay, which is happening three times a day, every single day to most of the inmates that are left. It's been going on for over a year, and in some cases since 2007, and the Courts refused to stop it

A US federal court recently declined to stop force-feeding of detainees at Guantánamo Bay. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused to issue a preliminary injunction.

“The rights of men being held in Guantánamo are being completely ignored, and the hunger strike is the only option they have left to protest their indefinite detention, which has lasted more than 11 years without charges for some of them,” said Dr Vincent Iacopino, of Physicians for Human Rights. “By allowing the cruel and degrading practice of force-feeding to continue, the court has essentially authorized the continuation of an abusive tactic that violates human rights and fundamental medical ethics.”

The detainees being forced-fed are being held in indefinite detention, which is in itself a violation of human rights, according to the PHR. A preliminary injunction would have at least stopped force-feeding, which constitutes ill-treatment and could rise to the level of torture.

However, two of the three judges said the detainees did have a right to challenge the practice in court, paving the way for a continuing legal battle over the issue. The judges also pointed that that “force-feeding is a painful and invasive process that raises serious ethical concerns.”
http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/10876