{"id":2718,"date":"2014-12-10T07:26:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2014-12-10T07:26:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:26:49","slug":"cia-report-torture-is-a-crime-and-those-responsible-must-be-brought-to-justice-us-news-theguardian-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2718","title":{"rendered":"CIA report: &#8216;Torture is a crime and those responsible must be brought to justice&#8217; | US news | theguardian.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2014\/dec\/09\/torture-cia-amnesty-international-human-rights-watch\">CIA report: &#8216;Torture is a crime and those responsible must be brought to justice&#8217; | US news | theguardian.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px 0px;\">The UN, human rights activists and legal experts have renewed calls for the Obama administration to prosecute US officials responsible for the CIA torture programme revealed in extensive detail following the release of a\u00a0<a style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2014\/dec\/09\/cia-torture-report-released\">damning report by the Senate intelligence committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px 0px;\"><a style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2014\/dec\/09\/senate-key-findings-on-cia-torture\">The report<\/a>, released on Tuesday, found the CIA misled the White House, the Justice Department, Congress and the public over a torture programme that was both ineffective and more brutal than the agency disclosed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px 0px;\">\u201cToday\u2019s release once again makes crystal clear that the US government used torture. 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