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A strongly divisive U.S. government report leads off our show this Wednesday. 这个周三我们首先关注美国政府公布的一份招惹争议的报告。
It involves controversial interrogation techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. 这份报道涉及自2001年美国911恐怖袭击事件后中情局对恐怖嫌疑人使用的严酷审讯手段。
The report was released yesterday by the Senate Intelligence Committee. 该报告昨天由参议院情报委员会发布。
Its job is to oversee and monitor the intelligence activities of the U.S. government. 这个部门的职责在于监督及监视美国政府的情报行动。
In order to get information from terrorism suspects, the report says the CIA would deprive them of sleep, sometimes for days, sometimes in uncomfortable positions. 这份报告显示为了从恐怖嫌疑人口中撬得情报，中情局会采用有时剥夺几天睡眠的权利，有时还会使人陷入不安环境。
It says some suspects were beaten, and some were water-boarded, when water is poured onto someone's face and head to instill a fear of （逐渐形成一种…的恐惧）drowning. 报告称多数犯罪嫌疑人被殴打，一些还被施以水刑，这种刑罚是把水倒在脸上使人产生快要窒息和淹死的感觉。
Critics including President Obama called these methods torture and say they are ineffective in getting information. 包括奥巴马总统在内的批判人士认为这种做法过于残酷并且对于获得情报并没有多大效果。
Defenders including the CIA called the methods effective and say they helped prevent terrorist attacks. 而包括中情局在内则申辩称所有这些方法都行之有效并且能够阻止恐怖分子的袭击。
Yesterday, U.S. security officials warned law enforcement that the report could influence extremists and terrorists to attack the U.S. 昨天美国安全官员警告执法部门这份报告的出现可能会引发极端分子和恐怖分子袭击美国。
Thousands of U.S. military personnel on heightened alert, 数千名美国军事人员正处于高度戒备状态，
anticipating the release of a report by the Senate Intelligence Committee on top secret interrogation tactics and torture of CIA detainees. 预测参议院情报委员会公布这份中情局绝密审讯策略及酷刑报告发布后所产生的后果。
Our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and deaths. 我们自己的情报机构估测此报告一经公布就会引发暴力冲突和死亡。
The Marines are positioned in key areas, ready to respond to potential violent reactions directed at U.S. embassies and military bases around the globe. 海军陆战队已经在关键地点待命准备应对针对美国大使馆和全球军事基地的潜在威胁。
Believed to be included in the report, details of water-boarding and other interrogation tactics（手段，策略） in the years after 9/11. 报告显示自911事件那年起水刑和其他审讯酷刑就已经存在。
The CIA believes the so called enhanced interrogation techniques including water-boarding provided key information that prevented other terror attacks and led to the capture of Osama bin Laden. 中情局相信包括水刑在内的强化审讯技术对阻止恐怖袭击，本拉登逮捕行动的情报资料获得方面起到不可或缺的作用。
But the report questions the effectiveness of those procedures. Critics of the 50 million report question the timing of its release. 但这份报告对刑讯逼供的有效性提出了质疑。批评者质疑这份价值5000万美元的报告的发布时间。
When would be a good time to release this report, and it's difficult to imagine one. 何时公布这份报告才是绝佳时机，这真的是一个令人头痛的难题。
Particularly because of the painful details that will be included, 尤其是报告所含细节，
but again, the president believes that it is important for us to be as transparent as we possibly can be about what exactly transpired（出现，发生 与happen差不多）, 但是再次强调一遍，总统相信这份报告的公布对我们而言至关重要，
so we can just be clear to the American public and to people around the world that something like this should not happen again. 我们可以向美国公众和世界人民表明这种事情不会再发生。
Former Vice President Dick Cheney dismissed the Senate report saying, the CIA's interrogation methods were absolutely totally justified. 而前副总统迪克·切尼辩驳称中情局的做法完全合情合理。
Cheney who hasn't read the report strongly defended CIA leaders arguing the program itself was worth it, 没读过报告的切尼表示中情局做法非常有价值。
adding As far as I'm concerned, they ought to be decorated, not criticized. That sentiment was echoed by former President Bush. 他补充道就我而言，中情局应受到表扬而非批评。切尼的这种观点得到了前总统布什的回应。
These are patriots, and whatever the report says, if it diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way off base. 他们都是爱国者，无论报告写些什么，如果削弱对于国家所做的贡献，那就是大错特错。

It should be clear to everyone that there is a strong correlation between economic growth and energy use. 
每个人都清楚经济发展和能源消耗存在着强烈的关系。
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