Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick
We’ve been writing quite a bit about the supposedly devastating $40 million, 6,300 page Senate report that exposes the CIA torture program for being useless — and (perhaps more importantly) describing in detail how the CIA lied about it to everyone, including Congress. There’s been something of an ongoing fight about declassifying the document, with the general thinking being that the Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee would likely support declassification, but the Republicans would not. But, as we’d pointed out, despite Intelligence Committee boss Senator Dianne Feinstein’s condemnations of the CIA concerning the report, she still couldn’t must up the courage to admit that what the CIA was doing was “torture.” Instead, it was always the “detention and interrogation program.” But, anyone who’s looked at it knows exactly what it was: a torture program, almost certainly in violation of the Geneva conventions. Continue reading “Some Senators Finally Willing To Call CIA’s Torture Program ‘Torture’”