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CIA 'Torture Report:' House Intelligence Chairman, Former CIA Chief Warn Against Report's Release
International Business Times ^ | 12/08/2014 | Avaneesh Pandey

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: california; cia; diannefeinstein; harf; marieharf; michaelhayden; mikerogers; torture; waronterror; waterboarding
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To: SeekAndFind

This is outrageous.


21 posted on 12/08/2014 8:09:17 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The program must be a good one and have worked because the left hates it par.


22 posted on 12/08/2014 8:11:22 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: SeekAndFind

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.......


23 posted on 12/08/2014 8:19:15 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: cripplecreek; All
"Its most likely to harm our allies and they won’t be there when we need them."

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?

24 posted on 12/08/2014 8:31:27 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Ahh the Hillary Clinton defense. What difference does it make if our people in those countries are targeted.


25 posted on 12/08/2014 8:34:05 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: JimRed
Which is done to <10% of SERE graduates of the San Diego (Warner Springs) school.

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.

26 posted on 12/08/2014 8:36:06 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: cripplecreek
"What difference does it make if our people in those countries are targeted."

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?

27 posted on 12/08/2014 8:39:03 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: SeekAndFind

King Barry is chomping at the bit to release the report, then..


28 posted on 12/08/2014 8:39:53 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: SeekAndFind
Releasing it should be ok, Mike! After all, it'll contain the “nothing here” like the Benghazi report. /S
29 posted on 12/08/2014 8:42:29 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Mariner

I’m calling you a moron.

Now talk to someone who wants to hear your stupidity.


30 posted on 12/08/2014 8:45:11 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: cripplecreek
"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.

31 posted on 12/08/2014 9:17:25 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


32 posted on 12/08/2014 9:42:46 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


33 posted on 12/09/2014 12:59:51 AM PST by jedwardthelegend ("Howdy!")
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