The CIA has released dozens of previously classified documents that expose grim details about the US spy agency’s torture program after the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks, including a request that it would never be prosecuted for abusing suspects.
The documents, released under a freedom of information request from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), detail the early days of post-9/11 torture program, after then-president George W. Bush authorized the CIA to round up terror suspects around the world.
The files provide a new glimpse into the inner workings of the CIA’s “black site” prisons, messages from field officers who warned about how detainees were being treated, and secret memos about the roles played by doctors and psychologists in facilitating the controversial program.
“These newly declassified records add new detail to the public record of the CIA’s torture program and underscore the cruelty of the methods the agency used in its…