provided extensive inaccurate information about the program and the effectiveness to the department of justice, the cia inspector general, the media and the american public. this conclusion is somewhat personal for me. i remember clearly when director hayden briefed the intelligence committee for the first time on the so-called iets at that september 2006 committee meeting. he referred specifically to a tummy slap among other techniques. he presented the entire set of techniques as minimally harmful and implied in a highly clinical and professional manner. they were not. the report demonstrates that these techniques were physically very harmful and the constraints that existed on paper in