W/S Congress [CUTAWAY]

SOT, Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee chair (in English): "I remember clearly when director Hayden briefed the intelligence committee for the first time on the so called EIT's on September 2006 committee meeting. He referred specifically to a “tummy slap” among other techniques and presented the entire set of techniques as minimally harmful and implied in a highly clinical and professional manner. They were not. The committee's report demonstrates that these techniques very physically very harmful and that the constraints that existed on paper in Washington did not match the way techniques were used at CIA sites around the world."

W/S Congress room [CUTAWAY]

W/S United States Capitol [NO SOUND AT SOURCE]

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U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein branded the CIA's "interrogation techniques" as “physically very harmful” on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, after referencing conflicting words from former CIA Director Michael Hayden who once described the techniques in 2006 as a "tummy slap." She spoke as a 500 page executive summary of the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" techniques, what many consider to be a euphemism for torture, was released.

The report details how "enhanced interrogation techniques" were ineffective and that methods such as water boarding, sleep deprivation and slapping were more brutal than previously represented by the CIA. It has also been revealed the techniques were often used in combination, often to "brutal" effect.

"Enhanced interrogation" was used in the years following the 9/11 attacks on the US, with at least 119 suspects held in "black sites" held in secret locations in Europe and Asia under the George W. Bush administration.

Security was increased at US embassies and other US facilities around the world ahead of the publication, as there have been "indications" of "greater risk" according to a White House spokesperson.

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