KR Washington Bureau | 11/10/2005 | Operatives say CIA exemption on torture a mistake
KR Washington Bureau | 11/10/2005 | Operatives say CIA exemption on torture a mistake: "By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Administration officials, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, are vigorously lobbying Congress to exempt the CIA from a ban on mistreatment of detainees. But many former and some current CIA operatives say - morality aside - that mistreatment and torture aren't useful interrogation tactics and the loophole should be rejected.
'We ought to declare we don't do this. We ought to declare the intelligence isn't worth it,' said Frank Anderson, a former chief of the CIA's Near East and South Asia division in the agency's Operations Directorate, the clandestine service.
There's also the question of what brutality does to those who carry it out, Anderson said.
'I will rebel against anyone who wants my son to torture, because it won't ever heal,' he said, speaking at a conference this week sponsored by the Middle East Institute."
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Administration officials, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, are vigorously lobbying Congress to exempt the CIA from a ban on mistreatment of detainees. But many former and some current CIA operatives say - morality aside - that mistreatment and torture aren't useful interrogation tactics and the loophole should be rejected.
'We ought to declare we don't do this. We ought to declare the intelligence isn't worth it,' said Frank Anderson, a former chief of the CIA's Near East and South Asia division in the agency's Operations Directorate, the clandestine service.
There's also the question of what brutality does to those who carry it out, Anderson said.
'I will rebel against anyone who wants my son to torture, because it won't ever heal,' he said, speaking at a conference this week sponsored by the Middle East Institute."
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