{"id":33,"date":"2014-12-09T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-06T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:01:39","slug":"33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/2014\/12\/09\/33\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Committee Releases Findings on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/untdocsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/migrated\/7\/cia-seal.png\" alt=\"CIA seal\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" \/>The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released the \u201cForeword,\u201d \u201cFindings and Conclusions\u201d and \u201cExecutive Summary\u201d\u2014a total of over 500 pages\u2014from its <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/study2014\/sscistudy1.pdf\">Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency \u2018s Detention and Interrogation Program<\/a>. <\/em>The full report is more than 6700 pages long and remains classified, although it is an official Senate report.<\/p>\r\n<p>This report is highly critical of the CIA\u2019s actions following the terrorist attacks on 9\/11, accusing the agency of responding to the national crisis by initiating a program of indefinite, secret detention and the use of brutal interrogation techniques that violated U.S. law, treaty obligations, and basic human values.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/study2014\/sscistudy2.pdf\">Additional views<\/a> by six individual committee members accompany the released consensus summary.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/study2014\/sscistudy3.pdf\">Minority views and Additional Minority views<\/a> were also presented by several senators who disagreed with the methods and conclusions of the report.<\/p>\r\n<p>The CIA has responded with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/news-information\/press-releases-statements\/2014-press-releases-statements\/statement-from-director-brennan-on-ssci-study-on-detention-interrogation-program.html\">Statement from Director Brennan on the SSCI Study<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Article by Bobby Griffith.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released the \u201cForeword,\u201d \u201cFindings and Conclusions\u201d and \u201cExecutive Summary\u201d\u2014a total of over 500 pages\u2014from its Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency \u2018s Detention and Interrogation Program. The full report is more than 6700 pages long and remains classified, although it is an official Senate report. 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