Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program

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Investigation report

The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture , often shortened as " CIA torture report " ( English CIA torture report ), is the investigation report of the Intelligence Committee of the US Senate over torture of American foreign secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 . The detention and interrogation program was approved six days after September 11, 2001; US President Barack Obama officially closed it in January 2009.

Committee

The impetus for the report was that Jose A. Rodriguez , head of the National Clandestine Service , had around 100 video recordings of interviews destroyed in 2005. The committee was headed by Dianne Feinstein .

The full report is 6200 pages long and is confidential . The publication of the report has long been debated. On April 3, 2014, the SSCI decided to publish a revised version of the report. An abridged version of 525 pages, not classified as secret, but blackened in many places, was published in December 2014.

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A number of torture methods were documented in the report, including injuries and permanent physical and psychological damage to those affected; also a death.

Two subcontractors were also mentioned. After the transport from Abu Subaida to Thailand in 2002, James E. Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were charged with the interrogations. In the report they are pseudonymized as “Grayson Swigert” and “Hammond Dunbar”.

It was found that George J. Tenet , Porter J. Goss and Michael V. Hayden, as directors of the CIA , had deceived members of Congress, the White House and the Director of National Intelligence about the effectiveness of the program and the number of inmates .

Reactions

The US-American ex-President George W. Bush commented on the report with “We're fortunate to have men and women who work hard at the CIA serving on our behalf” (“We are lucky to have men and women, who work hard in our interests at the CIA ”). Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney said the report was "full of crap". Former CIA chief Michael Hayden pointed out that the information obtained had prevented terrorist attacks and arrested Al-Qaeda leaders.

Ben Emmerson , UN Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights, commented the day after the report was published. The report confirms suspicions that "systematic crimes and gross violations of international human rights law" were committed in the administration of George W. Bush at high level. He addressed the possibility of legal prosecution by any country in the world, but primarily called for charges in the United States.

As one of the few Republican politicians, US Senator John McCain , who survived five years of imprisonment in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War , was also critical of the CIA torture practices: “I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. "(" I know from my own experience that the mistreatment of prisoners tends to produce bad than good information. ") As recently as 2006, Michael Scheuer had claimed:" And then there is this wind machine in the Senate, Senator John McCain, who basically admits that the CIA tortures. Everything completely wrong. But that way the whole program is ruined. "

The People's Republic of China and North Korea condemned the US for its “hypocrisy” (hypocrisy) and “inhuman torture” and called for a corresponding response from the United Nations .

Film adaptation

The story of the work on the report and its publication was retold in the US feature film The Report (2019).

See also

Web links

literature

  • Wolfgang Nešković (ed.): The CIA Torture Report - The official report of the US Senate on the CIA's internment and interrogation program . Westend-Verlag, 624 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Individual pages displayed on Wikimedia Commons ; Complete document: PDF; 63 MB
  2. ^ Obama administration slows publication of CIA torture report . FAZ.net, December 6, 2014. CIA torture report - “Torture Report” is published . N24 , December 8, 2014. Ansgar Graw: CIA torture interrogations - enemas, beatings, 180 hours of standing sleep deprivation . Welt Online , December 9, 2014. CIA Torture Report - Fear of violent reactions . FR-online.de, December 9, 2014. Publication of the US torture report - fear of 500 pages of horror . Spiegel Online , December 9, 2014. Matthias Kolb: CIA torture report published - Brutal, dishonest, illegal . Süddeutsche.de, December 9, 2014. Issio Ehrich: CIA torture report - Even the most disgusting details have to be revealed . n-tv.de, December 9, 2014. According to the CIA torture report - Kwasniewski admits to secret US torture in Poland . ( Memento from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) heute.de, December 10, 2014. Dominic Johnson: Details from the CIA torture report - waterboarding, sleep deprivation, beatings . taz.de, December 10, 2014. Dana Schülbe: Reactions to the CIA torture report - “Everyone involved should be held accountable” . RP Online, December 10, 2014. Dick Cheney railed against CIA torture report . Zeit Online , December 11, 2014. Press reviews - This is how the European press comments on the CIA torture report . Focus Online, December 11, 2014.
  3. ^ Arit John: The 10 Most Important Excerpts From the CIA Torture Report . Bloomberg.com, December 9, 2014; NYTimes.com: 7 Key Points From the CIA Torture Report , Dec. 9, 2014. Adam Chandler: How Jihadists Are Spinning the CIA Torture Report . TheAtlantic.com, December 10, 2014. Jeremy Diamond: Top takeaways from the CIA torture report . CNN , Dec 10, 2014. Josie Ensor, Andrew Marszal: CIA torture report released: latest news . Telegraph.co.uk, December 10, 2014. The Guardian view on the CIA torture report: there is a second scandal here . TheGuardian.com, December 10, 2014. Sam Masters, Harry Davies: l CIA torture report is a 'load of hooey', according to CIA's torture adviser . Independent.co.uk, December 10, 2014.
  4. ^ CIA Fact Sheet Regarding the SSCI Study on the Former Detention and Interrogation Program
  5. ↑ Report on US interrogation methods: Bush thanks CIA staff for their torture work . Spiegel Online , December 9, 2012
  6. ↑ CIA Torture under George W. Bush: The Terrible Years . Spiegel Online , December 9, 2014
  7. ^ New York Times
  8. ↑ Dick Cheney, 'Deeply Flawed' Senate Interrogation Report 'Full of Crap'. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 14, 2014 ; accessed on December 15, 2014 .
  9. ↑ CIA Torture Report: What George W. Bush Knew . Spiegel Online , December 11, 2014
  10. ↑ Reactions to the CIA torture report: UN and human rights activists demand criminal consequences . Spiegel Online , December 10, 2014
  11. ↑ Feinstein report: UN expert calls for prosecution of CIA officers and other US Government officials . Statement of the UNHCHR (English)
  12. ^ Floor Statement By Senator John McCain On Senate Intelligence Committee Report On CIA Interrogation Methods . December 9, 2014
  13. ↑ Can the US secret service kidnap suspected terrorists? Michael Scheuer , one of the main people in charge, gives answers for the first time . In: The time . No. 1 , 2005 ( zeit.de ).
  14. ↑ CIA Torture Report: China, North Korea Slam US 'Hypocrisy', Call for UN Action . ibtimes.co.in (English) accessed on December 10, 2014