CIA accused of misleading US on torture of prisoners

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Details are emerging from a confidential report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee investigating Bush-era torture programmes. The report has concluded the CIA misled the US government about the scale of its abuse of prisoners and overstated intelligence gleaned from sessions on senior Al-Qaeda figures. The CIA is refusing to comment on the allegations. Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi reports from Washington.