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12-11-2014, 01:06 AM
Just in case anyone missed this, because I'm sure it was on all the network news shows.
Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans took a strikingly different tone from their Democratic colleagues Tuesday on the CIA’s detention program, hailing it for saving American lives and playing an important role in weakening Al Qaeda.
The report, issued by the committee’s outgoing senior Republican, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, stands in stark contrast to Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) highly critical findings asserting that the CIA misled the public, Congress and the White House about its enhanced interrogation program.
“We have no doubt that the CIA’s detention program saved lives and played a vital role in weakening Al Qaeda while the program was in operation,” the Republican senators concluded.
The GOP report decried the Feinstein study, arguing that it contained “faulty analysis, serious inaccuracies, and misrepresentations of fact” to create a series of false conclusions about the counterterrorism program’s effectiveness and the CIA’s interactions with Congress and the White House.
The authors accused Democrats of failing to be objective when compiling their findings and for harboring “political motivations” in their review, criticisms they said some intelligence officials have also leveled. The Republicans also lamented that the report’s commission cost U.S. taxpayers $40 million.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/gop-senators-defend-cia-alternate-report-113434.html#ixzz3LZBWu5U8
Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans took a strikingly different tone from their Democratic colleagues Tuesday on the CIA’s detention program, hailing it for saving American lives and playing an important role in weakening Al Qaeda.
The report, issued by the committee’s outgoing senior Republican, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, stands in stark contrast to Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) highly critical findings asserting that the CIA misled the public, Congress and the White House about its enhanced interrogation program.
“We have no doubt that the CIA’s detention program saved lives and played a vital role in weakening Al Qaeda while the program was in operation,” the Republican senators concluded.
The GOP report decried the Feinstein study, arguing that it contained “faulty analysis, serious inaccuracies, and misrepresentations of fact” to create a series of false conclusions about the counterterrorism program’s effectiveness and the CIA’s interactions with Congress and the White House.
The authors accused Democrats of failing to be objective when compiling their findings and for harboring “political motivations” in their review, criticisms they said some intelligence officials have also leveled. The Republicans also lamented that the report’s commission cost U.S. taxpayers $40 million.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/gop-senators-defend-cia-alternate-report-113434.html#ixzz3LZBWu5U8