CIA Lied About Torture To Justify Using It (Senate Report)

*A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years — concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance of plots and prisoners, and taking credit for critical pieces of intelligence that detainees had in fact surrendered before they were subjected to harsh techniques. The report, built around detailed chronologies of dozens of CIA detainees, documents a long-standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use — and later tried to defend — excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence, according to U.S. officials who have reviewed the document...* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Greg Miller, Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima at The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/n...