Fired Officer Believed CIA Lied to Congress; Friends Say McCarthy Learned of Denials About Detainees' Treatment

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 14, 2006| Author: R. Jeffrey Smith | Copyright information

A senior CIA official, meeting with Senate staff in a secure room of the Capitol last June, promised repeatedly that the agency did not violate or seek to violate an international treaty that bars cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees, during interrogations it conducted in the Middle East and elsewhere.

But another CIA officer -- the agency's deputy inspector general, who for the previous year had been probing allegations of criminal mistreatment by the CIA and its con...

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