Gee, I feel much better.
Gee. I wonder which side in the CIA wrote this report. The CIA guys on America's side or the ones on the other side. (Goss probably hasn't completed the fumigation yet).
The "CIA(CYA)" and Mr McGoo What is the differnce?!
It wouldn't be in the nature of the C.I.A. to take the word of Americans were there under the thumb of the Iranian radicals during their imprisonment. They would prefer the word of one of their bureaucrats who operates a desk in D.C.
Hostage taker or not, the guy was still a professional assassin for Iran
Does anyone believe anything the CIA says?
The CIA should publish a glossary with their public information releases. For example, in order to fairly evaluate this report it would be helpful to compare their level of "relative certainty" with other baseline determinations. For example, had the CIA determined with "relative certainty" that Saddam Hussein had active WMD development programs and stockpiles, or with a "higher degree of relative certainty", or a "lesser degree of relative certainty". How about the "Saddam's agents were seeking to purchase yellowcake uranium" story. Or, it would be helpful to know whether the CIA had determined with "relative certainty" that Bill Clinton was receiving illegal campaign donations from the Peoples' Liberation Army, etc. etc.
How convenient.
You could drive a truck through the loophole in this definition. Notice it says nothing specifically about "Interrogation"? I think I'll take the word of the former hostages over the CIA -- at least until somebody at CIA is willing to put their name on this conclusion.