CIA Director John Brennan defends his agency from accusations in a Senate report that it used inhumane interrogation techniques against militant suspects with no security benefits to the US
Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan gave a rare news conference on Thursday, defending his agency from accusations in a Senate report that it used inhumane interrogation techniques against militant suspects and said it "unknowable" whether such methods generated useful intelligence.
Mr Brennan opened by recounting the horrors of the September 11, 2001 attacks, his agency's determination to prevent another such assault and the fact that CIA officers were the first to fight and early to die in the Afghanistan war.
He conceded that unauthorised, and in some cases, abhorrent methods were used against captives.
"I have already stated that our reviews indicate that the detention and interrogation program produced useful intelligence that helped the United States thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives," He said at a news conference in the agency's Virginia headquarters.
"But let me be clear. We have not concluded that it was the use of EITs (enhanced interrogation techniques) within that program that allowed us to obtain useful information from detainees subjected to them. The cause-and-effect relationship between the use of EITs and useful information subsequently provided by the detainee is, in my view, unknowable," he added.
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