Israel: American arrested for allegedly plotting attacks on Muslim sites

December 10, 2014 03:37

CNN reports: The release of a Senate committee report on detention and interrogation techniques of the CIA, which mostly amounted to torture and have raised concerns across the globe, shows how the US effectively promotes human rights and democracy, top American officials have said.

"As Americans, we are committed to sending a clear message to the world that we support transparency, and that's part of how we resolve to never use these types of techniques again. That is why the (US) President supported the declassification of this document," a senior administration official said yesterday.

The release of the highly damaging report sets an example of a democracy by showing that the US has a process for working through these issues, that that process includes taking an accounting of what took place, having a degree of transparency about what's been done in the past, resolving to move forward together as one country, the official said.

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