The CIA, reacting to the release of the Senate’s report on the agency’s extreme interrogations, acknowledged making mistakes but disputed findings that the program did nothing to help thwart terrorist attacks and save American lives. “We acknowledge that the detention and interrogation program had shortcomings and that the agency made mistakes,” CIA Director John Brennan said. The most serious problems, he said, occurred early on and “stemmed from the fact that the agency was unprepared and lacked core competencies to carry out an unprecedented worldwide program of detaining and interrogating suspected al Qaeda and affiliated terrorists.” In carrying out the...
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