US Intelligence Committee Approves The Report That Finds Harsh CIA Interrogations Are Ineffective

Report Finds Harsh CIA Interrogations Ineffective -- Washington Post

After a contentious closed-door vote, the Senate intelligence committee approved a long-awaited report Thursday concluding that harsh interrogation measures used by the CIA did not produce significant intelligence breakthroughs, officials said.

The 6,000-page document, which was not released to the public, was adopted by Democrats over the objections of most of the committee’s Republicans. The outcome reflects the level of partisan friction that continues to surround the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other severe interrogation techniques four years after they were banned.

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My Comment: The authors of this report obviously did not see the movie "Zero Dark Thirty". As for the report itself .... Democrats voted for the report, and with the exception of Sen. John McCain who has always advocated that torture should not be use .... the Republicans voted against it. No bipartisanship on this issue.