House Intelligence Chief: CIA Torture Report Will Spur Attacks
Source: Associated Press
By KEN DILANIAN
The Associated Press
Published: December 7, 2014
WASHINGTON Foreign governments and U.S. intelligence agencies are predicting that the release of a Senate report examining the use of torture by the CIA will cause "violence and deaths" abroad, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday.
Rep. Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, is regularly briefed on intelligence assessments. He told CNN's "State of the Union" that U.S. intelligence agencies and foreign governments have said privately that the release of the report on CIA interrogations a decade ago will be used by extremists to incite violence that is likely to cost lives. The 480-page report, a summary of a still-classified 6,000 page study, is expected to be made public next week.
A U.S. intelligence official, who was not authorized to be quoted discussing classified intelligence assessments, said Congress had been warned "of the heightened potential that the release could stimulate a violent response."
On Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry urged the senator in charge of the report to consider the timing of the release, though Obama administration officials say they still support making it public. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat and chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has not responded to reports of the Kerry call, though she told the Los Angeles Times in a story published Sunday that "We have to get this report out."
Read more: http://www.stripes.com/news/us/house-intelligence-chief-cia-torture-report-will-spur-attacks-1.317930
Must be some pretty ugly shit in those reports...indeed.
sherihah
(11 posts)that will spur attacks, not the report itself.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)them
there's only one country they're hiding everything from
us
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Robyn Ryan
(3 posts)If you haven't done anything wrong, why not release?
Volaris
(10,272 posts)a terrorist target, and would be closed for x number of days to facilitate an increase in site security.
I live in St. Louis, and I thought
"bullshit. NOBODY is coming through 2000 miles of American ground security and Airpower just to blow up the Arch, I don't care HOW mad or crazy they might be."
So no. Not scared. Release the damn report. I wanna sit back and watch the cockroaches run for cover.
onecent
(6,096 posts)This world has enough conflict without us throwing this up every crazy country's ass.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)not because of anything we've done. So how could this report make any difference?
I mean, I thought they hate us because of our freedom.
That's what GWBush told me . . . he wouldn't lie to me, would he??
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99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Actually, it's not like "they' don't already KNOW what's in this report.
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)But, so many years after the Dirty Deeds (stolen eclections...invading a Sovereign Country (Iraq) Without Cause,..does lead one to wonder about America's Foreign Policy Doctrine (which has little Input from the Taxpayers) who are willing to cough up endless money for ENDLESS WARS.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)down the down trail. Only missing the music of a gunfight.
onecent
(6,096 posts)will blame it on Obama!!! Just watch Fox News go into OVERDRIVE.
You watch and report, cuz I cannot watch those morons...
on point
(2,506 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)Like the CIA's freedom to torture
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)What drivel.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Crap, crap, crap....
The usual bullshit about 'national security.'
And from a rethug....what a surprise....
SamKnause
(13,108 posts)Drag their asses in front of the camera and show the world they will be held accountable.
Apologize for their illegal actions.
Problem solved.
Snow Leopard
(348 posts)The audacity of the excuse not to publish is boggling
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)or we should say we were too dumb to realize how bad it was and apologize for doing it. Hiding what we did is cowardly.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)'Shoulda thought that through" beforehand.
Feral Child
(2,086 posts)From the American public, that is.
The use of torture and assassination in 3rd world countries is well known by the people that suffer our interference. That knowledge has been disseminated and, yes, it's used to recruit people to resist our terror tactics and occupation.
Only the devolved amongst us who want us involved in this shit believe Roger's statement. Those that understand how gruesome and heinous we've become realize that the cat escaped the bag as soon as the CIA started empire building.
As to John Kerry, he lost all credibility when he threw the election and let his Skull & Bones buddy continue to degrade the office of President.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)and our inalienable rights??? Since 9/11, they've never missed an opportunity to stick it to us...
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Now they're blaming the report.
I'm thinking it's the torture.
People tend to get angry about that.
I know I'm still angry.
RationalMan
(96 posts)this wouldn't be a problem.
Why do they (and this includes both Democrats and Republicans) always blame the reporting of our atrocities rather than the fact we committed them?
If we were blameless then we wouldn't have any problem releasing the details of our actions......
TriplD
(176 posts)by prosecuting those who tortured in our name.