The man at the center of the US Senate’s landmark investigation of the CIA torture program has gone public for the first time about an experience that led to the CIA spying on him as part of what he calls a “failed coverup”. For six years, Daniel Jones was the chief investigator for the Senate intelligence committee’s inquiry into CIA detentions and interrogations carried out in the post-9/11 Bush era. Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets Read moreJones has broken his silence in an extensive series of interviews with the Guardian, expressing dissatisfaction with what he called a lack of accountability for torture at the CIA. As the Obama administration’s various cabinet agencies have not even opened the full 6,700-page classified version of the report, critics fear that a government unwilling to grapple with the torture program will at some point return to it. “This is John Brennan’s CIA, Obama’s CIA,” he said.

Source: The Guardian September 09, 2016 11:09 UTC