Six former Directors and Deputy Directors of the CIA fired back at the Senate Intelligence Committee with a vehemence almost never seen in the intelligence world.
The former CIA leaders — including George Tenet, Porter Goss and Michael Hayden — blasted the Senate report as “one-sided and marred with errors” and called it “a poorly done and partisan attack on the agency that has done the most to protect America after the 9/11 attacks.”
Their 2,500-word rebuttal was posted as an op-ed on the Wall Street Journal website once the report was released. The former intel chiefs are also launching their own website to respond to the attacks on CIA’s post-9/11 activities.
The former directors argue that the CIA interrogation program “saved thousands of lives” by helping lead to the capture of top al Qaeda operatives and disrupting their plotting.
“A powerful example of the interrogation program’s importance is the information obtained from Abu Zubaydah, a senior al Qaeda operative, and from Khalid Sheik Muhammed, known as KSM, the 9/11 mastermind,” the former directors write. “We are convinced that both would not have talked absent the interrogation program.”
As for Osama bin Laden, the former directors outline the steps that led the Navy SEALs to the Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
“The CIA never would have focused on the individual who turned out to be bin Laden’s personal courier without the detention and interrogation program,” they write. “So the bottom line is this: The interrogation program formed an essential part of the foundation from which the CIA and the U.S. military mounted the bin Laden operation.”
Seconded.
Absolutely, but then haven’t we noticed that in so much of what else they do?
this admin plays with smoke and mirrors way too much
what is the left hand doing while the right hand is stirring up racial hatred? must be pretty significant to cause such a distraction
Agreed.
With an assist from the stupid John McCain.
I guess Feinstein is doing this out of retribution for Obama’s CIA spying on her computer.
Hey Feinstein, it is called impeach Obama.
And the truly dirty secret is that they would have saved even more lives if some of the interrogations had been more rigorous. The “failures” of the sessions are because they were benign enough that most of those being interrogated knew they were not in any real danger.
Back in Sept 2014, intel head Di/Fi was whining about the CIA looking through her computers and taking documents. Clearly, the CIA had plenty on her----even BEFORE the shocking Chi/Com missile scandal broke.
BACKSTORY: Di/Fi's known aversion to guns did not prevent her from honoring Cali's Raymond Chow---the key figure in Demorat state Sen Leland Yee's, shocking missile deal w/ China (Yee is a notorious gun-grabber stateside).
INCONVENIENT FACTOIDS:
<><>Feinstein heads the Senate Intel Committee;
<><> Her hubby Richard Blum made million as the lawyer for Chinese interests;
<><> gun-grabber Leland Yee knew where to get missiles, launchers, machine-guns etc;
<><> Raymond Chow was jailed, then freed when he professed to be a “really nice guy”.... honored by Di/Fi for working with local Chinese youths.
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EVERYBODY KNOWS THE DI/FI STORY COULD DWARF YEE'S ARMS DEAL: Taxpayers demand and investigation of Di/Fi's intel activities. <><> Did Di use her access to valuable US security data improperly? <><> Hubby Richard Blum made millions in China deals in past years. How'd he do that? <><> Is hubby cutting new deals w/ the Chi/Coms?
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ARE THE CLINTONS INVOLVED?----THIS DI/FI HILLARY SUCK-UP WAS VERY INSTRUCTIVE---DI even dropped the term "foreign policy" “In my view, she’s in the prime of her political life. She’s got the energy. She’s articulate. She’s got the background. She’s got the smarts. She has all of the elements of a good leader plus the fact, and this is not to be underestimated, she is enormously attractive to people,” she said on CNN's "State of the Union." “And she carries the torch for women who are the majority of votes in this country, very strongly and very high.”
Hillary's hefty income includes:
Hualuo CEO Forum (Spouse) Shanghai, China $550,000
Telefonaktiebolagel LM Ericsson AB (Spouse) Hong Kong, China $750,000
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WHAT DO DI/FI, HER HUBBY, HARRY REID, YEE, LEE AND CHOW KNOW ABOUT THIS?
Then-Pres Clinton inevitably pursued his own political advantage at the expense of American interests and national security.
Here's just one of the endless examples: the Clintons cupidity is well-documented---shows Clinton and the Democrats took illegal campaign money from groups and individuals tied directly to the Chinese People’s Republican Army. It is therefore not surprising that In January 1998 Clinton went against the advice of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Pentagon experts by lifting long-standing restrictions against the export of American satellites to China for launch on Chinese rockets.
Not only did then-pres Clinton move control over such decisions from the more security-focused State Department to the Commerce Department, but he intervened in a Justice Department investigation of Loral Space & Communications, retroactively enabling Loral to sell critical missile technology to the Chinese.
Interestingly enough, Clinton’s decision was made at the request of Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz, whose earlier $1.3 million campaign donation made him the single biggest contributor to the Democratic election effort.
The result? Democrats got money from satellite companies and from Chinese communists; China got supercomputors, advanced production equipment and missile technology; Loral got its satellites launched at bargain basement prices . . . and the transfer of sensitive missile technology gave China [for the first time] the capability of depositing bombs on American cities.
Incidentally, Loral ultimately failed to benefit from this permanent injury to America’s security interests: in July 2003, the company filed for bankruptcy protection, and in order to raise cash was forced to sell its most profitable business – a fleet of communications satellites orbiting over North America.
Anyone who gets worked up over waterboarding has their own personal issues. Or putting panties on the head of some Islamic terrorist. Good grief
Oh, and please those of you who support abortion give us any lectures on morality, etc. Got that DiFi?
What a bunch of pompous self serving unpatriotic hypocrites
I watched Norah O’Donnell clench her teeth while interogting the former cia chief this morning. He slammed dunked her (expectedly as she is such a lightweight) and she just hated it.
Exactly. They don’t care about saving the lives of Americans, at home or abroad.
The democrats, which include McCain and Graham, are traitors.
McCain, known as “the canary” by his fellow POWs, always says torture brings out false information. That’s his story because that’s what he said he did. When the truth is he cost lots of pilots their lives. On top of that, his injuries were from ejecting after being shot down because he didn’t follow orders of the mission. Just the third plane he crashed. His daddy always protected him. Including when he was in the Hanoi Hilton. Google it.
What is wrong with these stinking good for nothing socialist homo loving communist A-holes!!!!!!!!!!!! Dimocrats don’t give a good tinkers da&#^% about CIA, Military, Cops. They only care about poor illegals, sit on their butt lazy a$$e$ at home, sucking the country dry of money and benefits they never earned.
The only problem I have with torture is that it may be used on us Christians before too long!
If they could guarantee it would only be used on Muslims, I’d be okay with it.
Democrats or GOP or actual conservatives, I don’t care, but I support anyone who tells the American people the truth about what our government has been up to. Especially the CIA, which seems to feel, all too often, that it is a law unto itself. Now, if this report is a pack of lies, I’m against it, and the Demos will be disgraced. But if it is true, my hat is off to them.
Pure theater by Fineswine and other rats in the $inate.
If they are really concerned about harming people without due process and/or justice, how many of them are crying about the bad and innocent people killed by our drones controlled by our outhouse.
While Difiswine and McAinal display their public crocodile tears, their buddies the Islamic Jihadist terrorists kill more and more innocent people.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3236105/posts
Jihadism: Tracking a month of deadly attacks
BBC News ^ | 10 December 2014 | Christine Jeavans, Nassos Stylianou
Posted on 12/11/2014, 7:13:43 AM by Freeport
Jihadist attacks killed more than 5,000 people in just one month, an investigation by the BBC World Service and King’s College London has found.
Civilians bore the brunt of the violence, with more than 2,000 killed in reported jihadist incidents during November 2014. Islamic State carried out the most attacks, adding to the spiralling death toll in Iraq and Syria. Explore the map to find out more.
The data gathered by the BBC found that 5,042 people were killed in 664 jihadist attacks across 14 countries - a daily average of 168 deaths, or seven every hour.
About 80% of the deaths came in just four countries - Iraq, Nigeria, Syria and Afghanistan, according to the study of media and civil society reports.
Iraq was the most dangerous place to be, with 1,770 deaths in 233 attacks, ranging from shootings to suicide bombings.
In Nigeria, 786 people, almost all of them civilians, were killed in 27 Boko Haram incidents. These tended to be large and indiscriminate bombings and shootings such as the attack on the central mosque in the northern city of Kano, which left 120 dead.
Boko Haram also struck over the border in Cameroon, killing 15 people. Meanwhile, in East Africa, al-Shabab took 266 lives in Somalia and Kenya.
Afghanistan suffered almost the same number of deaths as Nigeria (782) but they tended to be in smaller, targeted attacks, such as the shooting of the deputy governor of Kandahar.
In war-ravaged Syria, 693 people were killed; Yemen had 410 deaths in 37 attacks.
Of the 16 jihadist groups involved in the bloodshed, Islamic State was the most deadly, killing 2,206 people across Iraq and Syria - 44% of the total death toll.