Sen. Feinstein lives up to Rolling Stone's standards
Feinstein and her staff did not interview a single CIA official involved in the interrogation program. Not one. As the senator's Web page notes: "The committee could not conduct its own interviews because of a simultaneous DOJ investigation into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program."
That is "nonsense," say former CIA directors Michael Hayden, George Tenet and Porter Goss, who published a response with former deputy directors John McLaughlin, Albert Calland and Stephen Kappes in the Wall Street Journal last week. They point out that Justice Department investigations were completed two years ago and "never applied to six former CIA directors and deputy directors, all of whom could have added firsthand truth to the study."
No one on the committee spoke to John Rizzo, former chief legal officer at the CIA, or to Jose Rodriguez, who ran the interrogation program. Not only were they not under investigation, both have also written memoirs discussing the program.
The fact that Feinstein is misleading reporters about this should be a major red flag for the media. If she can't even tell the truth about why she failed to interview any CIA officials for their report, how can anyone trust the honesty of the report itself?Also read:
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