CIA Considered U.S. Standards for Jails

The CIA’s early framework for its detention program following the 9/11 attacks included the same basic rights and protections for U.S. prison inmates, according to the new Senate Intelligence Committee report. The CIA planned for interrogation practices to “be tailored to meet the requirements of U.S. law and the federal rules of criminal procedure,” according to a 2001 memo from CIA lawyers. The report also revealed the CIA first planned to use the federal Bureau of Prisons to help run detention centers. As the U.S. faces international outcry over the brutal conditions at CIA prisons, the early reports reveal an alternate ending to a harrowing history.