CIA deceived the United States on its harsh interrogation techniques

CIA deliberately misled the administration and the American people about its harsh interrogation methods, in force under President George W. Bush, sais the report of the Senate.

In this 6,300-page document drafted by the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA is accused of hiding some details of the brutality of his methods, as torture, according to the Washington Post.

Most valuable information about al-Qaeda, "including those that led to the operation against Osama bin Laden in 2011," were not obtained through the methods of the CIA, says the Washington Post.

This report is still confidential and the newspaper claims that it disclose these details thanks to the officials' indiscretion who had access to it.

Contacted by AFP, Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the CIA declined to comment on the information. "We have not yet received the final version of this report," he said.

The document was drawn up around "detailed statements of dozens of people held by the CIA" between 2002 and 2006. During this period, the agency was the avanpost for the "war on terror" decreed by Bush, using these techniques named as torture by many human rights defenders. These methods included sleep deprivation, nudity and waterboarding prisoners.

President Barack Obama put an end to these techniques in late 2009.

Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Services, Dianne Feinstein said last week that its members intend to vote to request official declassification of 400 of the 6,300 pages of the report.