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Shes a career professional. i think shell have to answer for some of the things she did but for the most part i think the agency is out of that business. >> need, what do you think? >> i think it was a covert action program. they are designed, conceived and authorized by policy makers. by the white house in particular and by the president of the united states himself. we cant look at this as something that gina haspel herself cooked up. this is something that hundreds, if not thousands of agency...

Shortcomings identified in the report are the following. the cia used poorly trained and nonvetted personnel. individuals were deployed in particular interrogators without relevant training or experience. due to the cias redactions to the report, there are limits to what i can say in this regard. its a clear fact that the cia deployed officers who had histories of personal, ethical, and professional problems of a serious nature. these included histories of violence and abusive training treatment...

Released. due to poor recordkeeping, a full accounting of how many specific detainees were held and how they were specifically treated while in custody may never be known. similarly, in specific instances, we found that enhanced interrogation techniques were used without authorization in a manner far different and more brutal than had been authorized by the office of legal counsel and conducted by personnel not approved to use them on detainees. questions about how and when to apply interrogatio...

Detainees, mueller said that videotapes were, quote, not being made, end quote, but did not disclose that videotapes of previous waterboarding sessions had been made and still existed. source, e-mail from scott mueller dated june 7th, 2003. there are many, many more examples in the committees report. all are documented. the third set of findings and conclusions notes the various ways in which cia management of the detention and management program from the inception to the formal termination in j...

Military veterans had this scathing review of what this report says, john mccain. but we have current troops serving overseas. is there grave concern, given what was reported today for those people? >> yeah, theres a lot of concern although, as he said, these people do not need an excuse to go after americans. its what they do. this may drive up the recruiting effort for isis and other organizations to see what the americans are all about. weve got to stop this evil. that could happen. i think p...

Ultimately, not all contract options were exercised. however, the cia has paid these two contractors and their company more than $80 million. of the 119 individuals found to have been detained by the cia during the life of the program the committee found that at least 26 were wrongfully held. these were cases where the cia itself determined that it had not met the standard for detention set out in the 2001 memorandum of notification which governs a covert action. detainees often remained in cust...

Personnel went to that location in november 2002. and according to a contemporaneous cia e-mail, told cia officers had never been, quote, in a facility where individuals are so sensory deprived, end quote. again, source, cia e-mail, sender and recipient redacted, december 5th, 2002. throughout the program, multiple cia detainees subject to interrogation exhibited psychological and behavioral issues, including hallucinations, paranoia, insomnia, and attempts at self-harm and self-mutilation. mult...

Of defense donald rumsfeld. there are cia records stating that colin powell was not told about the program at first because there were concerns that, and i quote, powell would blow his stack if he were briefed, an e-mail dated july 31, 2003. cia records clearly indicate and definitively after he was briefed about abu zubaydah, that president bush did not talk about the full nature of the eits until april 2006. thats what the records indicate. the cia similarly withheld information or provided fa...

Portraying a cia that in some sense went rogue on this operation. >> we learned moments ago that colin powell and the president were not briefed for years. i mean, i think it said until 2006 the president, president bush at the time did not receive briefings on what was going on and yet on his biography he said he was fully briefed. >> and the reference to powell says he was not briefed on the program. >> secretary of state. >> as secretary of state. >> let me interrupt you only for the senator....

Funding. it was not, however, managed as a significant cia program. instead, it had limited oversight and lacked formal direction and management. for example, in the six months between being granted detention authority and taking custody of its first detainee, abu zubaydah, the cia had not identified and prepared a suitable detention site. it had not researched effective interrogation techniques or developed a legal basis for the use of interrogation techniques outside of the rapport building te...