CIA Director Refutes The Allegations Made By The Senate ‘Torture Report’
CIA Director John Brennan said that the the so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EITs) his agency used against terror suspects were, in some cases, “abhorrent” but stopped short of referring the controversial program as “torture.”
In a rare news conference at the Pentagon, Brennan acknowledged that the CIA made mistakes, although he refuted the notion that “the agency misled others on the effectiveness of the program.” Countering another key revelation of the report that the Senate Intelligence Committee released on Tuesday, Brennan said that it’s “unknowable” if the interrogation program resulted in intelligence gains. He opened his remarks with a lengthy description of the 9/11 attacks as a “backdrop” to the program.
“For someone to say that there was no intelligence of value of use that came from those detainees once they were subjected to EITs, I think that is lacks any foundation at all,” he said.
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