The 10 Most Important Excerpts From the CIA Torture Report
The most widely shared passages from the Senate’s CIA torture report.
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While some have worried that the Senate’s CIA torture report would lead to trouble abroad, it’s already causing outrage at home.
It’s not just the graphic descriptions of torture that are being passed around, but the misinformation and lack of accountability within the CIA that is being discussed. The top social media results on torture focus on instances of the CIA spreading false information to try to sway public opinion and government decisions, and failing to discipline officers for, among other things, causing the deaths of detainees. The CIA did not vet those who oversaw the torturing, and allowed individuals who’d reportedly admitted to sexual assault to conduct interrogations.