CIA Report a Damaging 'Political Broadside' by Democrats
While a "vigorous discussion" on interrogation techniques would have been beneficial with intelligence officials and legislators, making Tuesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee report public was a "terrible idea" that will do "huge damage to our ability to work with foreign intelligence," according to former CIA Director James Woolsey.
Joined by former CIA officer Fred Rustmann, Woolsey appeared Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s "America’s Forum."
"There are values on both sides avoiding torturing on the one hand, saving the republic from attack by terrorists on the other," Woolsey said. "This is a major and important question.
"What is a terrible idea was to release this publicly, because this will do huge damage to our ability to work with foreign intelligence services," and will certainly "help produce attacks on Americans abroad."
There is no "coherent reason" for Sen. Dianne Feinstein and other Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee to have released the report, Woolsey said, which detailed enhanced interrogation techniques used on detained terror suspects following 9/11, such as waterboarding, rectal feeding, forced nudity, and extended periods of confinement in a coffin-sized box.
Woolsey characterized it as "as bad a decision about intelligence as has been made in this country for the last half century."
It’s "incomprehensible," he added, that those conducting the investigation would not have interviewed the directors and other senior intelligence officers.
Americans were highly fearful after having been recently attacked when the alleged torture occurred.
"Three-thousand Americans plus had died and we were worried about another attack," he said. "In those circumstances, it is understandable that people stretched the situation in terms of some of the tactics and techniques they used.
"But most all of the things that one would not want to have done, someone chained to the walls, for example, happened within the first few months of this in getting organized.
"To go back and publicly go into all of this, it's fine to have a dispute within the intelligence community but to do it publicly is going to really seriously damage t
Woolsey said he was "aghast" at how the CIA has been thrown under the bus.
"The CIA is the tip of the spear," he said. "We're out there, we're fighting right alongside of our military. Our military is beloved, everybody talks about how great the military is, and the CIA, who is out there risking its lives every day, gets treated this way.
"This is just a political broadside in the waning days of the Democratic-controlled Senate. That's all it is and it's going to hurt."
Rustmann agreed, calling it a "nasty, nasty attack" for no good reason.
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MY MOST HUMBLE OPINION.-
HONOR AND GLORY TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE C.I.A., PAST AND PRESENT AND FUTURE...MY G-D BLESS THEM AND KEEP THEM SAFE SO THEY KEEP ON PROTECTING US FROM EVIL-DOERS AND PEOPLE WHO HATE AND ENVY THE USA.
BUT, MOST OF ALL, MY LOVE AND RESPECT TO ALL OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE CIA WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES ON BEHALF OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF CUBA...AND SPECIALLY THOSE WHO DIED FIGHTING IN THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION: CIA, ALABAMA AIR NATIONAL GUARD AND THE BRAVE U2 PILOT WHO DIED WHILE FLYING OVER THE RUSSIAN MISSILES DEPLOYED IN CUBA!!!!!!!
DO NOT EVEN DARE APOLOGIZE FOR DOING YOUR SACRED DUTY!!!!
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