Senate to release report on Bush interrogation techniques and policies (11am release)

CNN ^ | 5:19 AM EST, Tue December 9, 2014 | Ed Payne and Evan Perez

[Dave346]

U.S. Marines are on high alert. So are the CIA and the White House for that matter.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle also are ready to enter the fray.

All the fuss is over the Senate Intelligence Committee's $50 million investigation of Bush-era CIA interrogation tactics on detainees in the years following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The long-delayed report on the use of torture - "enhanced interrogation techniques" - by the U.S. government is expected to be released Tuesday morning.

This won't be a full disclosure, but the report's 480-page executive summary. There will also be a shorter Republican counter-assessment and the CIA's own assessment. The complete report totals more than 6,000 pages.

The release comes six years into the Barack Obama presidency and in the waning days of Democratic Party control in the Senate.

Countries that cooperated with the CIA, hosting black site prisons and assisting in transferring detainees, will be identified only obliquely and not by name. CIA employees, referred to by pseudonyms in the report, won't be identified.

The Senate report was conceived initially as a bipartisan review of the CIA program, though Republicans senators pulled support from the investigation soon after it began. Its findings likely will end up being seen through the prism of the deeply-partisan divide over the Bush-era counter-terrorism tactics and whether they actually produced intelligence to keep the nation safe.

More than a hundred detainees went through the CIA's detention program, and about a third were subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques," which included waterboarding, exposure to cold temperatures, slapping and sleep deprivation. Three were waterboarded, which is considered the harshest of the techniques.

For some Republicans and CIA supporters, there's still a dispute about whether techniques like waterboarding, used on three detainees, constitutes torture.

[Verginius Rufus]

I doubt Obama would try to bring criminal charges against George W. Bush. No doubt he would love to do so, but he'd be afraid it would backfire politically.

Anyway, Bush left office nearly 6 years ago. What would the statute of limitations be on this kind of thing? It may be too late to bring any charges.

[Kackikat]

Loolk it up at the Geneva Convention rules on waterboarding aka interrogation techniques in violation of

[dragonblustar]

Speaks for itself.

[central_va]

The corn dog pose?

[dragonblustar]

I doubt Obama would try to bring criminal charges against George W. Bush. No doubt he would love to do so, but he'd be afraid it would backfire politically.

I wouldn't put it past him. He would rally his far left base, who are in the media or active street protestors.

[NKP_Vet]

Trying to divert attention from the lying ass Gruber telling the truth about ObamaCare. Releasing this report on CIA internal workings will mean one thing. American will die as a result. It also means that democrats could care less. They are the most American-hating pieces of scum that walk the earth. I despise each and every democrat. What kind of American would want more Americans dead? The same morons that refuse to believe we are at war with radical muslims. The instigator in chief is the POS that sits in the White House.

[MeshugeMikey]

Is there anything this Administration won’t pour gasoline on?”

Revealing Obie real identity... and his Real Connections..

THOSE ITEMS are covered by a cone of silence..

[Pining_4_TX]

This was done today to distract from the Gruber testimony. The Democrat scheme to give the media something they could focus on in order to ignore or downplay the Gruber story worked.