The Public Record:
"A CIA employee of two decades, McCarthy became convinced that 'CIA people had lied' in that briefing, as one of her friends said later, not only because the agency had conducted abusive interrogations but also because its policies authorized treatment that she considered cruel, inhumane or degrading," the Washington Post reported in May 2006.
But the veracity of those assertions have been called into question by former CIA official Mary O. McCarthy, who said senior agency officials lied to members of Congress during an intelligence briefing in 2005 when they said the agency did not violate treaties that bar, cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment of detainees during interrogations, according to a May 14, 2006, front-page story in The Washington Post.
"A CIA employee of two decades, McCarthy became convinced that 'CIA people had lied' in that briefing, as one of her friends said later, not only because the agency had conducted abusive interrogations but also because its policies authorized treatment that she considered cruel, inhumane or degrading," the Washington Post reported.
"In addition to CIA misrepresentations at the session last summer, McCarthy told the friends, a senior agency official failed to provide a full account of the CIA's detainee-treatment policy at a closed hearing of the House intelligence committee in February 2005, under questioning by Rep. Jane Harman (California), the senior Democrat," The Washington Post reported.
"McCarthy also told others she was offended that the CIA's general counsel had worked to secure a secret Justice Department opinion in 2004 authorizing the agency's creation of "ghost detainees" - prisoners removed from Iraq for secret interrogations without notice to the International Committee of the Red Cross - because the Geneva Conventions prohibit such practices."
In 2004, McCarthy was tapped by the CIA's Inspector General John Helgerson to assist him with internal investigations about the agency’s interrogation methods. The report Helgerson prepared remains classified, but the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to have it released publicly.
"McCarthy was not an ideologue, her friends say, but at some point fell into a camp of CIA officers who felt that the Bush administration's venture into Iraq had dangerously diverted US counterterrorism policy. After seeing - in e-mails, cable traffic, interview transcripts and field reports - some of the secret fruits of the Iraq intervention, McCarthy became disenchanted, three of her friends say," the Post reported.
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Congress reps are so stupid their only in the jobs for the kick back money. Listening to them question Tim Geithner makes it clear most are clueless about even common math and just fake it in the hearings. President Obama has to give and education class first because most don't even know how many States make up the United States. Basic education is lost to Congress and Dick Cheney knew that. The very few educated Congress people were either paid off or voted down. I really never knew it was that many really dumb Law Makers I mean really really dumb. No wonder kids have gone wild with adults that stupid it's easy. I remember when parents would check their childrens homework now the kids have to correct their parents. As teens watch Pelosi and Boehner hold high offices and both are drunk while speaking on TV why not drink. Cursing is all over Fox News so don't bother to correct a kid. President Bush was a clear case of a drunk and druggie. When he lied about the drug overdose and said it was a pretzel it was so funny because some hospital people were laughing so much and yes telling it to everyone. Now no not the top nurses and doctors but the cleaning staff leaked it out as they were laughing at the fake press release. Every drug user knew the signs and his eyes told the story as he was wheeled in. Now American hold Bush to be all that but part of his legacy will be he held office for two terms as an open drunk and druggie President.
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