Obama Propaganda Effort Exposed – Judicial Watch Obtains New CIA Documents on Terrorist Interrogations

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit on July 14th that obtained documents in August from the CIA regarding the results of the CIA’s detainee interrogation program, including a June 3, 2005, report entitled “Detainee Reporting Pivotal for the War Against Al-Qa’ida.” Last week, Judicial Watch received two different versions of this report from the CIA. The odd thing about these two new versions of the report, dated June 1, 2005, and July 12, 2005, – is that they contain completely different information than the June 3rd version previously released. Judicial Watch describes the differences:

Notably, the June 1, 2005, report makes the strong statement that “Detainee reporting accounts for more than half of all HUMINT reporting on al-Qa’ida since the program began…” This key fact is missing from the other two later versions. The June 1, 2005, report also has additional pages of redacted material.

Even with the differences, however, all three reports conclude: “One of the gains to detaining the additional terrorists has been the thwarting of a number of al-Qa’ida operations in the United States and overseas.” (The previously released June 3, 2005 report notes “…detainees in mid-2003 helped us build a list of approximately 70 individuals – many of whom we had never heard of before – that al-Qa’ida deemed suitable for Western operations.”)

Vice President Cheney himself sought the documents in response to actions taken by President Obama last March. Obama ignored objections from national security officials and released documents detailing the government’s enhanced interrogation program of terrorists (the so-called “torture” memos). President Obama initially withheld information detailing the results of this program, including alleged terrorist plots that the program prevented. This is the information that Cheney had sought and now Judicial Watch has provided to the public for the first time.

We got involved after it became clear that the Obama administration would not release the documents in a timely fashion. Only last week was the specific June 1, 2005, report that Vice President evidently sought released to Judicial Watch. Vice President Cheney had said all along these documents would show the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation techniques that were used on some detained terrorists, such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah.

Detainee interrogations were effective and have helped save lives in the United States and overseas. President Obama clearly didn’t want you to know it, and that’s why his administration initially cherry picked documents for release that supported his view while withholding others. We’re just glad we were able to provide the American people with more of the truth about the effectiveness of terrorist detainee interrogations.

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November 6, 2009 · Filed Under CIA

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