A report with cherry picked “facts” from GITMO detainees and their lawyers.
Via Chicago Tribune
Sen. Mark Kirk on Wednesday condemned the Democratic staffers on the Senate Intelligence Committee as “little zombies” reaching up from their “political graves” and said the panel’s report on the CIA’s harsh interrogations of terror suspects threatened U.S. troops and other personnel overseas.
He took aim squarely at the staffers of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who chairs the intelligence panel. “We may lose a couple of Americans in uniform on the front line in Afghanistan because of this incredible selfish act by Feinstein’s staff,” Kirk said.
Feinstein had a swift rebuke for Kirk. “This is character assassination and as far from the truth as can be,” spokesman Tom Mentzer quoted her as saying in response to Kirk’s comments.
Kirk maintained the Democratic staffers would lose their jobs when Republicans take control of the Senate and committees, including the intelligence panel, Jan. 6. The majority party typically has more staffers on Senate committees than the minority party does.[…]
Kirk disagreed with the report, citing the view of Michael Hayden, the former director of the National Security Agency and the CIA.
“Michael Hayden, who was running the CIA, feels that it was one of the most valuable sources of intel that we had on al-Qaida,” Kirk said. “He said there were thousands of reports that came from this, these interrogations, and we should not have cut off that source of intel for us.”