U.S. State Department Officials Are Expecting Trouble When The Long-Awaited Senate Report On CIA Torture Is Released

View of the Department of State in Washington, DC. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters)

U.S. Heightens Embassy Security, Anticipating Report On CIA Interrogations -- Reuters

(Reuters) - The U.S. State Department is increasing security at some American embassies in anticipation of the public release of a long-awaited Senate report detailing the CIA's use of harsh interrogation techniques, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the additional security measures reflected concerns that the report could prompt protests in countries where the CIA operated secret prisons that were used to conduct interrogations.

Human rights activists and some U.S. politicians have labeled as "torture" some of the physically stressful interrogation techniques, such as simulated drowning, that were authorized under former-President George W. Bush.

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My Comment: I suspect that nothing new will be made public when this report is released. But that has never stopped protestors from protesting outside U.S. embassies in the past, and I doubt that it will stop them now.