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 committee s 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 january of 09 was inadequate and deeply flawed. there is no doubt that the program was by any major measure a major cia undertaking. it raised significant legal and policy issues and involved significant resources and
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, there s a lot of concern although, as he said, these people do not need an excuse to go after americans. it s what they do. this may drive up the recruiting effort for isis and other organizations to see what the americans are all about. we ve got to stop this evil. that could happen. i think people are going to take this as the condemnation because there s not one positive thing in that report. this is 20 findings, all bad. certainly there was something in that program that must have been done right. it seems like every single thing was done wrong. it seems like they are piling on and there s not just going to be pushback inside the intelligence committee but inside many
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 custody for months after the cia determined they should have been
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. multiple cia psychologists identified the lack of human contact experienced by detainees as a cause of psychiatric problems. the executive summary includes
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. that s what the records indicate. the cia similarly withheld information or provided false information to the cia inspector general during his conduct of a special review by the ig in