Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) recently suggested that she couldn’t interview a single CIA operative
before the Senate Intelligence Committee’s
findings were released vis-à-vis Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIts) because...
the agency wouldn’t let her.
“The Department of Justice refused to coordinate its investigation
with the Intelligence Committee's review,” she said on the Senate floor
on Tuesday, referring to the already-completed DOJ investigation which
partially overlapped with her own. “As a result, possible interviewees
could be subject to additional liability if they were interviewed. And
the CIA, citing the attorney general's investigation, would not instruct
its employees to participate in our interviews.”
This excuse, Dr. Charles Krauthammer said last night on
Special Report, is “
total rubbish.”
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http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2014/12/12/krauthammer-feinsteins-excuse-for-not-interviewing-cia-agents-is-total-rubbish-n1931013
“The [DOJ] investigation ended in 2012. It’s now the
end of 2014. They [the Senate Intelligence Committee] had over two years
to interview and talk to anybody involved, including the highest
officials…”
“They [ended] up releasing a report without
any of that,” he
added. “No rebuttal, no context, no statements -- which tells me they
had a single intent hanging the CIA out to dry, and they went looking
for the evidence that fit.”
Columnist Rich Lowry made a similar point in his
Politico Magazine column earlier this week.
“The committee’s chair, Dianne Feinstein, says such interviews were
made impossible by Justice Department investigations into the people
responsible for the interrogation program, but those investigations
ended years ago,”
he wrote.
“The reality is that the committee didn’t want to include anything that
might significantly complicate its cartoonish depiction of a CIA that
misled everyone so it could maintain a secret prison system for the hell
of it."
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs
