Untrained CIA Officers Made Up Torture Methods As They Went Along

Untrained CIA Officers Made Up Torture Methods As They Went Along

By Jenna McLaughlin

On Tuesday morning, the Senate intelligence committee released an executive summary of its five-year investigation into the CIA's interrogation and detention program. (Read the executive summary here.)

Among the report's most striking revelations? CIA interrogators were often untrained and in some instances made up torturous techniques as they went along. [READ MORE]

The Senate Just Released the CIA Torture Report. Read the Full Document.

The findings of the Senate investigation into the CIA's interrogation and detention program were shocking. The 500-page summary was chock-full of the CIA's lies, awful abuses, Dick Cheney appearances, obstruction, and embarrassing lack of training.

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