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CIA torture brutal and ineffective: US Senate report

– ‘Recruiting tool’ for enemies –
The report was a years-long project of the committee’s Democratic members and staff. Republicans boycotted it, and on Tuesday they blasted it as a “political” assault on the CIA.

“We found that those biases led to faulty analysis, serious inaccuracies, and misrepresentations of fact,” Republicans led by Senator Saxby Chambliss said in their minority report.

But Republican Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war who was tortured in Vietnam, praised the report’s release and said harsh interrogations did little to make Americans safer.

“I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence,” he said.

“This question isn’t about our enemies, it’s about us,” he added. “It’s about who we were, who we are and who we aspire to be.”

There was also international consternation at the findings, British Prime Minister David Cameron saying: “Those of us who want to see a safer, more secure world want to see extremism defeated. We won’t succeed if we lose our moral authority,”

Since coming to office in 2009, Obama has sought to distance the United States from past deeds and outlawed harsh interrogation.

Lawmakers spent months negotiating with the White House on redactions, an undertaking that caused deep friction between the intelligence community and senators and their staff.

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