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 The report will include graphic details about sexual threats and
other harsh interrogation techniques the CIA meted out to captured
militants in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the
United States, sources familiar with the document said on Monday.
The report, which Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein said would
be released on Tuesday, describes how al Qaeda operative Abdel
Rahman al Nashiri, suspected mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the
USS Cole, was threatened with a buzzing power drill, the sources
said. The drill was never actually used on him.
It documents how at least one detainee was sexually threatened with
a broomstick, the sources said.
Preparing for a worldwide outcry from the publication of such
graphic details, the White House and U.S. intelligence officials
said on Monday they had shored up security of U.S. facilities
worldwide.
The report, which took years to produce, charts the history of the
CIA's "Rendition, Detention and Interrogation" program, which
President George W. Bush authorized after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Bush ended many aspects of the program before leaving office, and
President Barack Obama swiftly banned "enhanced interrogation
techniques," which critics say are torture, after his 2009
inauguration.
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A pair of Republican lawmakers called the release of the report
"reckless and irresponsible."
"We are concerned that this release could endanger the lives of
Americans overseas, jeopardize U.S. relations with foreign partners,
potentially incite violence, create political problems for our
allies, and be used as a recruitment tool for our enemies," Senators
Marco Rubio and Jim Risch said in a statement on Monday.
(Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton, Steve Holland and David
Alexander; Writing by Doina Chiacu and Sandra Maler)
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