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Shocking CIA Torture Report Sparks Fears of Violence

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U.S. embassies around the world are bracing for the fallout from the release of a top-secret Senate report with graphic details about CIA torture methods used after 9/11.

The report, which is to be released Tuesday, is said to be so shocking that officials fear it could spark protests and violence.

"This will in fact incite violence and it is likely to cost someone their life," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said.

According to officials who have read it, the document includes disturbing new details about the CIA's use of sleep deprivation, confinement in small spaces, humiliation, and the simulated drowning process known as waterboarding.

Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., called the torture "chilling," ''brutal" and "un-American."

In Septemer, President Barack Obama admitted the United States "tortured some folks."

"We did some things that were contrary to our values," he said.

Obama has since banned the practices while the Bush administration has come under heavy criticsm for use of the post-9/11 techniques.

But former CIA Director Michael Hayden told CBS' "Face The Nation" that waterboarding was no longer being done when he led the agency.

"While I was director, and under President Bush's guidance, we took waterboarding off the table," he said. "A popular story is that President Obama had done that. Actually it was long gone before he became president. and the last person waterboarded, of a total of three, was in March of 2003."

The fear is that the report will not only put U.S. overseas interests in danger and incite violence, but will be a powerful new recruiting tool for Muslims terrorists like ISIS.

But terrorists have already made Americans their top targets, including the death over the weekend of American photojournalist Luke Somers and a South African, killed by their captors in a failed U.S. rescue attrempt in Yemen.

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