Editorial Cartoon

The Political Circus Around The CIA Torture Report

Most of what was in this report had already been widely known and discussed.

Also interesting to note that the Oversight Committee appears to not provide any oversight at all, just deal with the problem after it breaks in the media. The politicians also appear to be great at the political grandstanding that happens in the media afterwards.

The report states that the C.I.A. never produced an accurate count or list of those it had detained or subjected to brutal interrogation techniques.”-Senate Intelligence Committee

You've reached your daily free article limit.

Subscribe and support our veteran writing staff to continue reading.

Get Full Ad-Free Access For Just $0.50/Week

Enjoy unlimited digital access to our Military Culture, Defense, and Foreign Policy coverage content and support a veteran owned business. Already a subscriber?

Most of what was in this report had already been widely known and discussed.

Also interesting to note that the Oversight Committee appears to not provide any oversight at all, just deal with the problem after it breaks in the media. The politicians also appear to be great at the political grandstanding that happens in the media afterwards.

The report states that the C.I.A. never produced an accurate count or list of those it had detained or subjected to brutal interrogation techniques.”-Senate Intelligence Committee

Any real oversight would have caught problems within the CIA and NSA before they turned into large scale issues.

Important Questions To Think About

  • How can we improve government oversight in the future to avoid massive oversteps by agencies like the NSA (spying on Americans) and CIA?
  • How and what (interrogation) techniques actually work? In our experience (we’ve been tortured in SERE school) torture for actionalble intelligence doesn’t produce reliable information.
  • What is going to be done to hold people accountable? Just another report with bad things and back to work?

 

About Brandon Webb View All Posts

Brandon Webb, a former Navy SEAL sniper and Naval Special Warfare Sniper Course Manager, is renowned for training some of America's legendary snipers. He is a multiple New York Times Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur, and Speaker. Webb is the Editor-in-Chief of the SOFREP news team, a collective of military journalists.

COMMENTS

You must become a subscriber or login to view or post comments on this article.

More from SOFREP

REAL EXPERTS.
REAL NEWS.

Join SOFREP for insider access and analysis.

TRY 14 DAYS FREE

Already a subscriber? Log In