By David Francis and Sabine Muscat
The CIA refuses to rule out torture and urges the nation to turn the page on the torture report. Agency Director John Brennan admitted at a rare press conference at Langley that some of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation tactics were “abhorrent” but refused to call them torture. He also refused to agree with the Senate report’s conclusion that enhanced interrogation failed to yield actionable intelligence. Brennan seemed more concerned with getting lawmakers, the press, and the public to close the door on the investigation than with explaining the CIA’s actions over the last decade.
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Source: Foreign Policy
