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CIA Enhanced Interrogation Techniques ‘Horrific’ but ‘Legal’: Senator

© East News / BRENNAN LINSLEYIn this photo, reviewed by the US Military, aleg shackles pictured on the floor at Camp 6 detention center, at the US Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
In this photo, reviewed by the US Military, aleg shackles pictured on the floor at Camp 6 detention center, at the US Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Sputnik International
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr has stated that the CIA's interrogation methods are legal and the recent Senate report does not offer the American people any new knowledge.

Intelligence, gained from terror suspects subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques, was used in the US operation that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the director of the CIA John Brennan said Thursday. - Sputnik International
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WASHINGTON, December 12 (Sputnik) — The enhanced interrogation techniques, used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and described in a recent Senate report, may be alarming to US citizens, but are justifiable from the legal perspective, incoming Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr has told Sputnik.

"We may look back and say we should never do this again, that is fine. But it was legal, it was directed by the [US] president and the individuals were cleared by the Justice Department," Burr said Thursday.

The senator added that the new report on CIA activities, released by the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday, does not offer the American people any new knowledge.

"…as horrific as it is and as long as it is, the American people learned nothing new," Burr said referring to the 500-page long report.

The Republican Senator told Sputnik that he found the process of the Senate review of the CIA interrogation practices at US detention facilities odd because "a [US] Justice Department review had said these weren't illegal".

"They were within the boundaries of the law. The individuals were well within their authority to carry them out," Burr stressed.

The enhanced interrogation practices by the CIA, carried out between 2001 until 2006, were deemed legal by the Bush administration's Justice Department. However, in 2009, US President Barack Obama's administration banned any government agency from relying on those legal opinions.

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