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America to come clean on its 'enhanced interrogation techniques'

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Tuesday 09 December 2014 17:12 GMT
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The lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. (Picture: Getty)
The lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. (Picture: Getty) (Getty)

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The US is set to publish a report exposing the "enhanced" interrogation techniques used by its intelligence service around the world – in other words, what many class as CIA torture.

The implications of the report stretch around the whole world, with much of the most controversial activity taking place off US soil.

Today’s report, actually a 480-page summary of a 6,000-page investigation from the Senate Intelligence Committee, is expected to include graphic details about sexual threats, waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques meted out to captured militants since the 9/11 terror attacks.

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