rsn | Today, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein released an astonishing statement
on her committee's investigation into torture by the CIA – and the
intelligence agency's shocking, and possibly illegal, activities to spy
on the committee itself.
A bit of important background: The investigation into
the CIA's "enhanced techniques" of interrogation – doublespeak for
torture – began late last decade, after it was revealed that video tapes
of the CIA's torture sessions had been destroyed, over the objection of
George W. Bush's White House Counsel and the Director of National
Intelligence.
In lieu of the destroyed video evidence, the CIA began
by providing its Senate overseers with "CIA operational cables
describing the detention conditions and the day-to-day CIA
interrogations."
Here the 11 most jaw dropping disclosures and accusations from Feinstein's statement:
