Posted on 12/08/2014 7:11:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday that the release of a U.S. Senate report investigating the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” by the CIA is a “terrible idea” and is likely to cause “violence and deaths” abroad. Rogers told CNN that the report's findings could be used by extremists to incite violence, harming American interests around the world.
“Our foreign partners are telling us this will cause violence and deaths,” Rogers said. “Our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and deaths. ... We have seen what happens when other incidents are used in the propaganda terrorist machine to incite violence.”
Marie Harf, the spokesperson for the U.S. state department, reportedly said that all American officials and military personnel overseas had been directed to review their security situation to ensure their safety “in case the report triggers violence.” Concerns over the timing and accuracy of the report were also echoed by Michael Hayden, the former director of the CIA.
“First of all, the CIA workforce will feel as if it has been tried and convicted in absentia since the Senate Democrats and their staff didn't talk to anyone actively involved in the program. Second, this will be used by our enemies to motivate people to attack Americans and American facilities overseas,” Hayden told CBS on Sunday.
He also disputed earlier statements by Dianne Feinstein, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in which she reportedly accused the CIA of willfully understating the harshness of the interrogation and confinement practices employed by it.
“To say that we relentlessly over an expanded period of time lied to everyone about a program that wasn't doing any good, that beggars the imagination,” Hayden reportedly said.
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This is outrageous.
The program must be a good one and have worked because the left hates it par.
So this would be like giving the NAZIs before WW-II the information on how we treated German POWs and spies during WW-I, and thus giving Hitler a great propaganda tool.......
Strike all reference to all other governments...even identifying characteristics...and RELEASE the report.
All of the "Arab Street" wants us dead anyway. All of us.
How could this report, that we bought and paid for, do further harm if nobody can figure out who our partners were?
Ahh the Hillary Clinton defense. What difference does it make if our people in those countries are targeted.
And NONE of the other schools for over a decade.
And nearly (not all) SERE subjects are offered the opportunity to Capitulate.
When speaking on a subject it's often prudent to know the subject.
They are targeted now.
What would change?
And a question for you: Are you equating my response with anything Clinton has ever said? If so, why?
King Barry is chomping at the bit to release the report, then..
I’m calling you a moron.
Now talk to someone who wants to hear your stupidity.
That's some brilliant oratory right there.
Perhaps if you knew something about the subject you wouldn't be so quick to the trigger, and so quick to expose your ignorance.
Of course, the ignorant are always comfortable in what they believe and the quicker they resort to the ad hominem the less they actually KNOW.
Not surprised coming from people who agree to legalizing the dismemberment of the unborn or leaving the survivors to die. Can’t wait for their judgment.
Black sites will remain open and info gathering methods will continue uninterrupted. Public CIA reports can often be great disinformation. I don’t believe the report outweighs our enemies’ existing and inherent desire to kill us just because we’re Americans.
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