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E-mail [email protected] for a registeration form Limited Time Offer- New Students Only Or call (248)541-1040 for more information NEWS 6 THE SPECTATOR Report shows years of CIA abuse Movie sparks conflict Emma Weisberger ’16, Assistant Editor-in-Chief Bennett Hart ’16, News Editor On Dec. 9, 2014, the Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program, a On Dec. 17, Sony announced the cancellation report composed by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), released 525 pages detailing abusive of the release of the highly anticipated comedy, behavior by CIA officials and overall shortcomings of the detention program. The Interview. The cancellation came after The report describes various forms of abuse by the CIA from 2001 to 2006. The report shows that the CIA provided Sony was hacked and threatened, which the FBI false information to the media and to government officials. The document discloses that, “The CIA repeatedly provided believes to be by the North Korean government, inaccurate information to the Department of Justice (DOJ), impeding a proper legal analysis of the CIA’s Detention and because the movie made fun of their dictator, Interrogation Program” and that “the conditions of confinement for CIA detainees were harsher than the CIA had represented Kim Jong-un, and ultimately assassinated him. to policymakers and others.” The CIA overstepped their boundaries of law and justice in order to commit inhumane and Although Sony changed their mind on Dec. unethical acts of torture on detainees. 23 and decided to release the film on Christmas Previously unknown detainees and forms of torture, that were much harsher than originally disclosed, were also revealed day in the theater after all, the U.S. government in this report. Some torture techniques that were used on detainees suspected of terrorism had “not been approved by the has not given North Korea a free pass. On Jan. Department of Justice or had not been authorized by CIA Headquarters.” These methods include keeping prisoners awake for 2, President Obama issued an executive order to a week, creating hallucinations while also telling detainees that they would rape and kill their family if they did not answer. further isolate North Korea from the rest of the The effects of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” were also provided, stating that, “The CIA’s use of its enhanced world by placing sanctions on their arms industry. interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees.” Many people are concerned that both North Another shocking discovery of this report was that out of 119 prisoners, at least 26 of them were found innocent. A week Korea and the U.S. are overreacting, but others after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, President George W. Bush signed a covert agreement with the CIA that they have the say that just the hacking by North Korea went too power to “undertake operations designed to capture and detain persons who pose a continuing, serious threat of violence or far, and the U.S. needs to protect their citizens death to US persons and interests or who are planning terrorist activities.” It allowed the CIA to make judgement calls, with and corporation by retaliating. The U.S. has said consequences like the confinement and torture of people, later proven innocent, based on allegations by other prisoners who that they are not afraid to take further actions and had been tortured prior to providing this false information. place more sanctions on North Korea if necessary. When CIA Director of the National Clandestine Service, Jose Rodriguez, destroyed over 100 tapes of interrogations Creators Seth Rogen and James Franco insist by the CIA in 2005, the SSCI considered that he may have been covering up illegal actions, even though the CIA had told they did not mean for all of this controversy officials that Rodriguez was not destroying any evidence.