Proceedings in the U.S. Senate were interrupted briefly Monday as a group of protesters shouted ‘Prosecute torture’ from the chamber’s balcony.
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., was speaking on the Senate floor when a small group of people stood up in the balcony and began chanting ‘Prosecute torture.’
They were apparently responding to a $40 million, four-year investigation of the CIA’s use of simulated drowning – called waterboarding – and other harsh interrogation methods on suspected terrorists who were captured or abducted and held in secret overseas prisons under the Bush administration between 2002 and 2007.
Durbin halted his speech on immigration as the protesters were peacefully taken from the Senate balcony by Capitol Hill security officers.