Times Online/UK, August 26, 2009
The author of
a scathing report on CIA interrogations during the Bush era has claimed that certain operatives lost control once they had been authorised to use “enhanced” interrogation techniques such as waterboarding.
John Helgerson, the former inspector-general of the CIA, also told The Times that the Obama Administration had cut key passages of his report out of the released version, a decision he found “puzzling”.
Mr Helgerson told The Times that the CIA had given assurances to the Justice Department that although the techniques would be used more than once, repetition would “not be substantial”.
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Ex-CIA official John Helgerson says agents lost control after torture go-ahead
Times Online/UK, August 26, 2009
John Helgerson, the former inspector-general of the CIA, also told The Times that the Obama Administration had cut key passages of his report out of the released version, a decision he found “puzzling”.
Mr Helgerson told The Times that the CIA had given assurances to the Justice Department that although the techniques would be used more than once, repetition would “not be substantial”.
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Tags: Abu Zubaydah, “black site” prisons, Bush regime, CIA interrogators, John Helgerson, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, report on CIA interrogations, waterboarding
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