President Barack Obama
said Tuesday that he would make sure that the United States
never again resorted to torture after a damning Senate report on
the CIA's detention and interrogation program.
The report said that the agency used "brutal" methods and
misled policymakers in the White House about them.
Furthermore, the report said that the interrogation
techniques on terrorism suspects were not even effective.
"Today's report by the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence details one element of our nation's response to
9/11 - the CIA's detention and interrogation program, which I
formally ended on one of my first days in office," Obama said in
a statement.
"The report documents a troubling program involving
enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects in
secret facilities outside the United States, and it reinforces
my long-held view that these harsh methods were not only
inconsistent with our values as nation, they did not serve our
broader counterterrorism efforts or our national security
interests.
"I will continue to use my authority as President to make
sure we never resort to those methods again".
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