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After the Torture Report: What’s Next for the CIA?

A workman slides a dustmop over the floor at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va., March 3, 2005 (AP photo by J. Scott Applewhite).
A workman slides a dustmop over the floor at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va., March 3, 2005 (AP photo by J. Scott Applewhite).
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As the new year opens, and the dust has begun to settle from the release of a report last month by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the CIA’s use of torture in the war on terror, it is time to ask what changes, if any, the report’s revelations will bring about for the agency in the coming years. Quite a few are necessary, but whether they will implemented is, of course, uncertain. To begin with perhaps the most concrete potential outcome, the report opens the way for an overhaul of how U.S. drone strikes are conducted in the […]

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