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WBAI'S MORNING SHOW EXAMINES CIA TORTURE REPORT FALLOU

Friday, December 12, 2014   12:00 AM - 11:30 PM

The US Senate report on harsh techniques employed to interrogate 'terror' suspects post-9/11 has condemned the CIA for brutality and deception. The heavily redacted 480-page report - published last week - covered the treatment of around 100 suspects rounded up by US operatives between 2001 and 2009 on terrorism charges.

The report said harsh CIA interrogations produced much bad information, including a fake story about al-Qaeda recruiting African-Americans. It said the interrogations were ineffective and never produced information that led to foiling of "imminent terror threat". The full 6,200-page report, which remains classified, followed a five-year investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee into the program. The CIA maintained the harsh techniques were effective and foiled terrorist plots. No one has been prosecuted for the programme.

On Friday's Morning Show, we were joined by Glenn Carle, who was a career CIA field officer, who retired in 2007 as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats. His book, The Interrogator, details his involvement in the "enhanced interrogation program," Marcy Wheeler, who blogs at emptywheel.net and writes the “Right to Know” column for ExposeFacts.org, a project of the Institute for Public Accuracy, and Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

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