Thursday, August 27, 2009

CIA News Updates -- August 27, 2009

The Real CIA News -- Wall Street Journal Commentary

Interrogations were carefully limited, briefed on Capitol Hill, and yielded information that saved innocent lives.

Whoever advised people to be skeptical of what they read in the papers must have had in mind this week's coverage of the documents about CIA interrogations. Now that we've had a chance to read the reports, it's clear the real story isn't the few cases of abuse played up by the media. The news is that the program was thoughtfully developed, carefully circumscribed, briefed to Congress, and yielded information crucial to disrupting al Qaeda.

In other words, it worked—at least until politics got in the way.

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More News On The CIA

CIA contractors will be a focus of interrogation investigation -- L.A. Times
CIA Interrogation Report Could Lead to Prosecution of Interrogators -- Voice of America
CIA Probe Reignites a Partisan Battle Over Spy Agency's Activities -- FOX News
Obama Administration Urged to Consider Expanded Interrogation Methods -- FOX News
CIA prisoners faced chilling interrogation methods -- AFP
Memos: CIA pushed limits on sleep deprivation -- Yahoo News/AP
Inside the Ring -- Washington Times
Rationalizing torture -- Chicago Tribune
Pain and Truth -- The New Yorker
A chilling effect on CIA agents? -- L.A. Times opinion
Probe shows 9/11 is, sadly, forgotten -- AJC opinion
Editorial: Tortured lessons on CIA abuses -- Dallas News editorial

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