Perhaps most perplexing, Senate Democrats left unaddressed the role played by top Bush administration officials, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, in constructing and authorizing the program. The report blasts CIA personnel for overstepping the boundaries of interrogation techniques as laid down by the Justice Department. But it has little to say about senior Bush administration officials’ roles in shaping those rules in the first place. That hasn’t sat well with intelligence officials still working at the CIA who think their bosses—who gave the orders to torture prisoners—are being let off the hook, while agency employees bear the brunt of the outrage.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:28:08 +0000
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