CREDIT: AP Photo/Olivia Harris, Pool The Senate Intelligence Committee will release an executive summary of a long-awaited CIA report on the government’s use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT) on Tuesday, showing that the agency relied on sexual threats, water-boarding, sleep deprivation and other gruesome methods to interrogate terror suspects in the wake of the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks. The document will also show that CIA officials misled the Bush administration about the effectiveness of the methods. Members of the intelligence community, former Bush administration officials who authorized the techniques in Aug. of 2002, and many Republicans in Congress have...
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