CIA chief challenges Senate torture report

[apples]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CIA_TORTURE_REPORT?SITE=MYPSP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-12-11-22-38-57

WASHINGTON (AP) -- CIA Director John Brennan is acknowledging that agency officers did "abhorrent" things to captive terror suspects, and he says he can't prove the harsh treatment made the prisoners cooperate. But he defends the overall post-9/11 interrogation program for stopping attacks and saving lives.

That is the carefully balanced case that Brennan attempted to make Thursday during an unprecedented televised news conference at CIA headquarters, something no one on the CIA public affairs staff could remember ever happening at the secretive agency's Virginia campus.

At the heart of Brennan's remarks was an exquisitely nuanced argument: That while today's CIA takes no position on whether the brutal interrogation tactics themselves led detainees to cooperate, there is no doubt that detainees subjected to the treatment offered "useful and valuable" information afterward.

Brennan said it was "unknown and

[jafo2010]

The release of this report is a traitorous act.

[apples]

The release of this report is a traitorous act.

yes it is.

[apples]

You know they have been salivating for years to release this.

[jafo2010]

I see ONLY TREASON!

[Stan In FL]

Feinstein has committed treason.  And lets be clear about why she has committed treason;  her panties are a wad because the CIA hacked her committe's computers.  that's why she's destroying the nation's entire intelligence capacity. 

we are soon to be easy meat for the ISIS whackjobs because DiFi got her feelings hurt. 

[jafo2010]

She is a bimbo on a good day.  Good Americans will die because of her senile incompetence.