President Obama: ”We tortured some folks”
August 2, 2014
WASHINGTON – The United States tortured Al Qaeda detainees captured after the Sept. 11,2001 attacks, President Obama acknowledged Friday, in some of his most expansive comments to date about a controversial set of CIA practices that he banned after taking office.
“We tortured some folks” Obama said at a televised news conference at the White House. “We did some things that were contrary to our values.” Still, Obama’s remarks on Friday were more emphatic than his previous comments on the subject, including a 2009 speech in which he trumpeted his ban of “so-called enhanced interrogation techniques,” and “brutal methods,” but did not flatly say the U.S. has engaged in torture.