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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 p...

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

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. senator mccain is on the floor. >> the cia is out there every day defending our nation. i have read...

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 techniques that were official cia policy until that time. in fact, there is no indication the cia revi...