{"id":182576,"date":"2015-08-05T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/05\/well-its-nice-that-someone-at-the-cia-can-tell-the-truth\/"},"modified":"2015-08-05T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T02:00:00","slug":"well-its-nice-that-someone-at-the-cia-can-tell-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/05\/well-its-nice-that-someone-at-the-cia-can-tell-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, It&#8217;s Nice That Someone at the CIA Can Tell the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA&#8217;s former executive director (#3 in the chain of command), Buzzy Krongard, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-33739480\">admitted that the CIA tortured detainees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The CIA tortured terror suspects in its programme of &#8220;enhanced interrogation&#8221;, the agency&#8217;s former executive director, Buzzy Krongard, has admitted to the BBC&#8217;s Panorama programme.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The agency&#8217;s position has always been that the &#8220;enhanced interrogation&#8221; techniques it used under George W Bush, did not amount to torture, because they were legally approved by the White House at the time.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">I asked Buzzy Krongard, the CIA&#8217;s former executive director, if he thought waterboarding and painful stress positions were torture:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Well, let&#8217;s put it this way, it is meant to make him as uncomfortable as possible. So I assume for, without getting into semantics, that&#8217;s torture. I&#8217;m comfortable with saying that,&#8221; he explained.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released last December highlights a number of unauthorised interrogation techniques that were also used on detainees in the CIA&#8217;s secret prisons, including excessive beatings, and ice water dousing and baths.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a public rebuttal to the Senate committee&#8217;s report, the CIA has admitted to significant lapses in the monitoring and development of its initial interrogation activities, including instances of using unauthorized techniques.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would not expect this level of honesty from a former CIA man, even one who only spent most of his career outside of the agency.<\/p>\n<p>It does kind of f%$# the CIA rebuttal, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA&#8217;s former executive director (#3 in the chain of command), Buzzy Krongard, has admitted that the CIA tortured detainees: The CIA tortured terror suspects in its programme of &#8220;enhanced interrogation&#8221;, the agency&#8217;s former executive director, Buzzy Krongard, has admitted to the BBC&#8217;s Panorama programme.The agency&#8217;s position has always been that the &#8220;enhanced interrogation&#8221; techniques &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,969,1102,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-intelligence","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}