12/12/2014

Reactions after the publication of the Senate report on torture

Dianne Feinstein, democrat chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who wrote this explosive report, responded point by point, on Twitter at CIA boss while he was speaking. Several tenors republicans believe that without these interrogations, the CIA would not have understood the central role of the messenger of Osama bin Laden, who led the CIA to the head of the extremist network. In the report, the assertion is exaggerated: many other sources pointed to the man.
Since the publication of the report, the White House has steadfastly refused to comment on the issue of effectiveness in the torture to obtain sensitive information. "The most important question is "would we have ?" and the answer to that question is "no" ",said Josh Earnest, spokesman for the US executive, interviewed numerous times on the subject, while reaffirming that Obama kept his confidence in Mr. Brennan. Arrived in march 2013 at the head of the powerful intelligence agency, he was one of the people present around the president in the basement of the White House the day Osama bin Laden was killed on may 2, 2011, by a US commando.

The indignant reactions continued thursday. Russia has joked about the "claim" of the United States to give lessons in democracy. "The content of the report is shocking," said the delegate for human rights in the russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Konstantin Dolgov. The spokesman of Russian diplomacy, Alexander Lukashevich, for its part, joked on US vulnerabilities, who "say they are all exceptional". Turkey found that the treatment described by the US Senate were "unacceptable and inhumane". 
The report describes how the prisoners were tied for days in the dark, thrown against walls, immersed in ice baths, deprived of sleep for a week, hitted. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of september 11, ingested and inspired so much water during sessions of "waterboarding" (simulated drowning) that it ended "almost drowned", says the document.
Precedent Vice President Dick Cheney, serving under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, he held wednesday night that the Senate report was "full of shit". "We did exactly what we needed to do to get our hands on those who had prepared the september 11 attacks and to prevent further attacks", he insisted.

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