Torture Report: CIA Director John Brennan Defends Agency -- ABC News
Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan today addressed the revelations contained in a comprehensive report released this week about the agency’s use of enhanced interrogation methods from 2002 to 2009, calling some of the techniques "abhorrent” but defending the program overall.
The report, written over five years by the Democratic members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, accused the CIA of using unauthorized interrogation techniques to extract information from detainees, including using power drills, mock executions, forced-feeding and threats against their families.
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John Brennan defends CIA, won’t say torture wasn’t useful -- Politico
CIA director defends agency's handling of torture -- USA Today
Brennan defends CIA interrogation program, challenges Senate report -- FOX News
CIA Director John Brennan defends agency's actions after 9/11 -- CBS
CIA Chief John Brennan Defends Agency But Questions Some Tactics -- NBC
CIA director: Some agency officers used ‘abhorrent’ interrogation tactics -- PBS Newshour
CIA boss John Brennan defends post-9/11 strategy -- BBC
CIA director John Brennan defends agency in wake of torture report -- The Guardian
CIA Director John Brennan: Senate Torture Report Is Flawed -- National Journal
CIA’s Brennan Says Value of Harsh Interrogations ‘Unknowable’ -- Bloomberg
Who is CIA director John Brennan? -- CNN
WNU Editor: This is hilarious .... Feinstein fires off Twitter rebuttals during CIA Director Brennan presser (Washington Post).
4 comments:
He read the same thing three times?
He rarely does news press conferences .... and it shows.
I tried to listen to the speech from the perspective of the CIA employees and 3 points came to mind.
Our boss thinks we're incompetent.
The political leaders are incompetent.
and we might still be charged for following orders.
I don't think it was a very inspiring speech!
I suspect that many (if not most) of these CIA employees have already sized who and what Brennan is. Still .... from a CIA employee's perspective .... yup .... not an inspiring speech.
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