Watch "'
You Can't
Trust Congress':
The Architect (
Extra Scene 1)" -
http://bit.ly/1uK0wOq
Watch "Dr.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee has released a blistering, 500-page report on the
CIA’s controversial detention and interrogation program, a document that committee chairwoman
Dianne Feinstein said represents the most significant oversight effort in the history of the
US Senate.
The $40 million, five-year study concluded that CIA officials exaggerated the value of the intelligence they gleaned from dozens of “high-value detainees” held at black site prisons, where they were subjected to so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding.
The committee reviewed more than 6 million pages of top-secret CIA documents and found that the architect of the interrogation program was a retired
Air Force psychologist named James Mitchell, an agency contractor who — according to news reports — personally waterboarded alleged
9/11 mastermind
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The Senate report does not identify
Mitchell by name.
Mitchell has a signed a non-disclosure agreement with the CIA and was unable to discuss his alleged role in the agency's enhanced interrogation program, but
VICE News met up with him in suburban
Florida to discuss the
Senate's report and one of the darkest chapters of the war on terror. This is the first time Mitchell has ever appeared on camera.
Editor's note:
One week after this video was released the restrictions on Mitchell's non-disclosure agreement were loosened. In an exclusive follow-up interview with VICE News, Mitchell admitted that he was the interrogator who personally waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al Qaeda facilitator
Abu Zubaydah, and
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the accused mastermind behind the
USS Cole bombing - http://bit.ly/1zoSmA8
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Community Outreach — Not 'Enhanced
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Read “What $
300 Million Bought the CIA's '
Detention and Interrogation’
Program” - http://bit.ly/1Byh30p
Read “Senate
Torture Report Finds the CIA Was
Less Effective and More
Brutal Than
Anyone Knew“ - http://bit.ly/165G0n5
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Official Wants US
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- published: 10 Dec 2014
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