Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Critics Of The U.S. Senate's CIA Torture Report Voice Their Concerns



Ex-CIA Officials Say Torture Report Is One-Sided, Flawed -- Reuters

(Reuters) - A group of former top-ranking CIA officials disputed a U.S. Senate committee's finding that the agency's interrogation techniques produced no valuable intelligence, saying such work had saved thousands of lives.

Former CIA directors George Tenet, Porter Goss and Michael Hayden, along with three ex-deputy directors, wrote in an op-ed article published on Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal that the Senate Intelligence Committee report also was wrong in saying the agency had been deceptive about its work following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

"The committee has given us ... a one-sided study marred by errors of fact and interpretation - essentially a poorly done and partisan attack on the agency that has done the most to protect America after the 9/11 attacks," they said.

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More News On Criticism Of The The U.S. Senate's CIA Torture Report

CIA Fights Back After Torture Report -- ABC News/AP
Hayden slams Senate report, claims CIA interrogations yielded 'Home Depot'-sized trove of intel -- FOX News
Former CIA head Hayden denies lying to Congress on interrogations -- AP
CIA torture report: 8 times U.S. officials defended CIA interrogations -- CBC News
'Flat Wrong': Big-Bucks Torture Teacher Slams CIA Report -- NBC
Psychologist says Senate report on CIA interrogation makes false charges -- Reuters
Why Dick Cheney calls the CIA torture report 'a bunch of hooey' -- Husna Haq, CSM
Beware the CIA's pushback on the Senate's torture report -- Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times

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