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Obama said he would continue to use his authority as president to ensure enhanced interrogation practices like those detailed in the Senate report are not used in the future.
A 2009 Senate Armed Services Committee report found that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were not the result of a few unmonitored bad apples but rather the direct result of "enhanced interrogation" practices approved of by officials much higher up in the Bush administration.
Backroom negotiations over the release of a long-delayed Senate report on the George W. Bush administration's use of so-called "enhanced interrogation" practices are again hitting a wall.
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Barack Obama, having found that he and Brennan shared a similar philosophy regarding the role of the CIA, considered appointing Brennan head of the agency in 2008; however, Obama balked in response to accusations of Brennan's involvement in the "enhanced interrogation techniques" practiced during the administration of Pres.
Brennan also served as a senior CIA official during President George W Bush's administration, when waterboarding and other forms of "enhanced interrogation" and detention practices were adopted.
The rebranding of torture as "enhanced interrogation," the despicable practice of rendition, the unprecedented surveillance of people inside and outside the country, and the apparent drive to use drone for extrajudicial killing of citizens and other designated enemies would be ways to begin the long list of what is shocking.
Whereas he had once decried the use of torture under any circumstances, he now voted against banning the same techniques of "enhanced interrogation" that had been practiced against him in Vietnam.
The Senate's report on CIA practices documented enhanced interrogation techniques used against suspected members of al Qaeda in the years following the September 11th attacks.
He defended the Bush administration's backing of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and other CIA practices that Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein called torture "under any common meaning of the term".
While the report is believed to stop short of calling the practices "torture," the "enhanced interrogation" techniques detailed prompted Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore).
They include false and misleading statements about the interrogation of Zubaydah, the qualifications of C.I.A. interrogators, the agency's reporting practices regarding abuse, the number of detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation, the utility of information obtained in disrupting terrorist plots, and threats of sodomy and other inappropriate behavior.
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