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...agency was pressured by its political masters to go into the "dark side" - a phrase made famous by Cheney in the aftermath of 9/11. Bush backers counter that it was the intelligence professionals who said that hardened al-Qaeda operatives could only be broken in this manner. The IG report may help to establish the origins of the program. If it turns out the agency was forced into employing the harsh techniques, expect even louder calls for indictments of high-level Bush Administration officials.(Read "Terror Interrogations: Can the CIA and FBI Work Together...
...much actionable information out of the detainees. Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said last week that the truth lies somewhere in between: that the program achieved "modest success" - providing the agency with useful information about al-Qaeda organization and leadership, but not necessarily information about attacks. If the IG report says no specific attacks were prevented because of information gleaned by the use of waterboarding and other harsh methods, that would be a major embarrassment for Cheney. (Read "CIA's Secret Program: Why Wasn't Panetta Told...
...memos from 2002 to 2005 provided the legal underpinning for the harsh techniques, and we already know that many of these were in fact used - waterboarding was used on one detainee 183 times, and on another 83 times. But the IG report should supply more granular detail on the use and frequency of the techniques...
...controlled environment: doctors were on hand to monitor the health of detainees, strict limitations were placed on the extent and frequency with which the techniques were applied. But waterboarding a detainee 183 times - not to mention the use of power drills - suggests things got out of hand. The IG report should tell us if the interrogators went rogue. (Read how waterboarding got out of control...
...coercive techniques well before then. An FBI interrogator who was involved in interrogations until May that year has testified to Congress that some methods being used then were "borderline torture." (In protest, the FBI withdrew from participating in the interrogations before the first memo was written.) If the IG report confirms that, it may be impossible for Obama to hold off Holder's planned investigation...