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        US Senate Committee Votes to Declassify CIA Interrogation Report

   The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has voted to make public key
   parts of a long-awaited report highly critical of the Central
   Intelligence Agency`s interrogation techniques during the war on
   terror.
   Committee chair Dianne Feinstein, speaking Thursday, said the report
   "exposes the brutality" of interrogation practices first brought to
   public light during the presidency of George W. Bush.
   The newly-declassified 480-page executive summary also concludes the
   CIA repeatedly misled officials about the severity of the "enhanced"
   interrogation techniques, including waterboarding and sleep
   deprivation.
   Additionally, the report -- assembled entirely by Democrats --
   concludes that those practices did little to produce valuable
   intelligence from terrorism suspects in the aftermath of the September
   11, 2001 terror attacks.
   Thursday`s 11-3 committee vote -- opposed by three Republicans on the
   panel -- comes as the Senate committee and the CIA remain locked in a
   bitter feud related to the report.
   Senators have accused the CIA of spying on their inquiry and deleting
   key files, while the CIA says Senate staffers illegally accessed
   classified information that could jeopardize the safety of its
   operatives.
   White House spokesman Jay Carney, speaking Thursday, repeated President
   Barack Obama`s support for releasing the summary. He told reporters the
   CIA will be instructed to complete the declassification quickly.
   Georgia Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss said he voted for the
   release of the summary "to get it behind us," while calling the Senate
   probe a "waste of time."
   He also challenged findings saying the program failed to help track
   down Osama bin Laden and other terror suspects. He said information
   extracted from the interrogations led to the uncovering of other terror
   plots, as well as to bin Laden`s demise.
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