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Senate Intelligence Committee Releases Torture Report - CIA Program Was Brutal and Ineffective

| Importance: 10/10

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence releases a 525-page executive summary of its comprehensive investigation into the CIA’s detention and interrogation program, revealing that the program was far more brutal, widespread, and ineffective than the CIA disclosed. The report, based on a …

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Abu Zubaydah - Waterboarded 83 Times, Tortured for Years, Never Charged with Any Crime

| Importance: 9/10

Abu Zubaydah remains held in U.S. custody more than two decades after his capture in Pakistan in March 2002, despite never being charged with any crime. Zubaydah was the CIA’s first “high-value detainee” and the primary test subject for the torture program, waterboarded 83 times …

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CIA Begins Systematic Use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques on Detainees

| Importance: 9/10

Following the authorization provided by the August 2002 Yoo-Bybee torture memos, the CIA begins systematically implementing “enhanced interrogation techniques” on terrorism suspects held at secret black site prisons. The program, developed by psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen …

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