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This is the complete official summary report of the senate intelligence committee s investigation of central intelligence agency interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 911 attacks. The committee study of the central intelligence agencys detention and interrogation program is a report compiled by the bipartisan united states senate. Torture report describes cia interrogation program time. Senate select committee on intelligence just security. Victims of torture and a pubhc statement by the white house thatprisoners in u. The ssci report is not the first official accounting of harsh interrogation methods conducted during the bush administration, but it is the first to examine the cias role. The report from the senate intelligence committee run by chairman sen. Senate intelligence committee study on cia detention and. An important read and source material for people working on this issue from diverse background. The report says the agency routinely misled the white house and congress about the information it obtained from the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects.
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