Posted on 12/08/2014 12:37:44 PM PST by Starman417
The deeply partisan Feinstein Report is slated to be released anytime now. Possibly tomorrow:
CBS News has confirmed that the Obama administration is bracing itself for a Tuesday release of the long-awaited CIA torture report, though the timing ultimately remains at the discretion of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sources familiar with the matter confirm to CBS News State Department Correspondent Margaret Brennan that Secretary of State John Kerry called and requested, but did not pressure, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, the chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee, to hold off on releasing the report. The administration has some concerns about the safety of diplomats abroad.
Prepare for the Republican minority view to be released on the same day, along with the CIA rebuttal. The 5-year Feinstein investigation ended up having zero Republican participation; nor did the investigation see fit to interview those CIA officials and interrogators directly involved with the detention and interrogation program. So essentially, it all gets to be interpreted and presented by the critics who first led in with the verdict and followed with the investigation through a confirmation biased magnifying glass lens.
Army Lt. Col. Douglas Pryer wrote a guest blogpost at Thomas Ricks (long-time "torture" critic) that ridicules the notion that this Report is partisan, or that it matters:
Predictably, torture’s acolytes are already responding: The report was a Republican witch hunt led by Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein. Facts were selectively culled by partisan staffers in order to paint the program in the worst possible light. Other staffers could’ve selected different facts and reached completely opposite conclusions. Sure, there were problems with the program, but these techniques really did “work.” They saved lives. Someday, the truth will be revealed, and the men and women who performed this “hard, dirty work” for good ends will be lauded as the true heroes they are. In the mean time, trust us regarding this program’s success. WE KNOW.Hogwash. I’ve never believed a word of what torture’s advocates say, and neither should you.
His experience as a counterintelligence officer is a good read. But it echoes the same arguments that military interrogators like "Matthew Alexander" (Anthony Camarino) have been claiming (side note: Pentagon's military detention and interrogation program under Rumsfeld was not the same as the CIA program- nor should it have been. Feinstein's 5-year investigation is an examination of the CIA- not military). But they, along with FBI interrogator Ali Soufan, are countered by a CIA interrogator who actually was involved in the program. Essentially, Ali Soufan, Lt. Col. Preyer, Camarino, and other likeminded "experts" are speaking from the outside about a program they were not apart of to witness from the inside.
This Report is so egregious, that former CIA senior intelligence officials are launching a rebuttal website, CIASavedLives.com according to an exclusive at Foreign Policy Cable:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
The report was a Republican witch hunt led by Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Now that is confusing...
It’s Obama Admin DISTRACTING from the Obama Admin ,2 more years of the same
The rendition program began under Clinton. I’m guessing that fact will be ignored.
We water-boarded what, three people? Is that what all this is about?
Well, for one, making us look bad, causing violence, and helping to kill our men and women.
Much like Benghazi report no one will care, the whole POINT of these reports is to make people shut up, and table the whole situation until some convenient time to drop a voluminous report that will be ignored.
would have been worse if we used soap.
If it is not released tomorrow, it will be leaked by a Senate staffer Wednesday.
As soon as it is available, the left wing facultys of our high schools and colleges will make it mandatory reading; so their students can appreciate the moral equivalence between America and ISIS.
Shame on the Senator for publicizing a questionable story against the America that has been so good to her. She gives no one at CIA or the White House the benefit of the doubt. History will see her as shameless. partisan and unbalanced.
I doubt it is anything that will be shocking. Ok so some Servicemen pissed on some terrorists...big deal. I am sure it will be a big yawn.
The Headline will denounce “TORTURE”!
The fine print will declare that first offering and then withholding of M&M’s constitutes “torture”.
“Senate Intelligence”
The only phrase more oxymoronic than “Military Intelligence”.
The enemy could care less what they do to our men so it needs to be on a level playing field...fight to win by whatever means is needed IMO.
This is how they treat our boys..though this is an Australian soldier.
I say we didn’t do enough torturing.
As long as we didn’t force anyone to wear panties on their head....Now that would have been real bad.
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