Topic: U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that he opposed, for now, creating an independent commission to probe harsh Bush-era interrogation techniques widely branded as torture. But Reid, who has denounced as torture the use of the near-drowning tactic called waterboarding, said he might be open to the idea once the Senate Intelligence Committee wraps up its enquiry into ...
A top US Senator said Thursday that he opposed, for now, creating an independent commission to probe harsh Bush-era interrogation techniques widely branded as torture. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who in the past has denounced the use of the near-drowning tactic called waterboarding as torture, told reporters he preferred to leave the job to the Senate Intelligence Committee ...
