By Patrick Henningsen | 21stcenturywire.com
Things got even hotter this afternoon in Washington in the wake of todays release of the Senate Intelligence Committees now infamous Torture Report.
Struggling to control the CIAs crumbling torture narrative, CNNs Wolf Blitzer, attempted to derail US Senator Diane Feinstein today live on CNN, by interrupting the Senator repeatedly, insinuating that the report was wrong, almost acting as an apologist for Washingtons 13 year-long torture boondoggle. What followed in their exchange is some of the most explosive revelations yet
Feinstein went on to drop the biggest bombshell yet, stating, The CIA spent $40 million dollars to prevent us from issuing this report. That is fact. We did not spend the money, we used our staff to do this report.
She then accused the CIA of foul play, explaining, They went into our computers, literally, to take out information, not once, not twice, but three times. I believe that this is a separation of powers violation.
This to me shows that the CIA pulled out all the stops to prevent this from coming out.
Blitzer dutifully continued pumping up CIA chief John Brennan, whom Blitzer proudly referred to as, a man I know, citing Brennans highly dubiously claim that torture, continues to inform our counter-terrorism efforts to this day.
Feinstein flatly rebuffed the Brennan statement. An an examination of these records going back to the beginning of the program, indicates that this is simply not true.
Feinstein also went on to describe how tapes were burned, and challenged anyone who disagrees with the reports findings to go and actually examine the evidence inside it.
Blitzer went on with the usual media strawman tactic, asking the Senator, Are you saying hes lying?
Blitzer pressed forward with the fairly fictional claim that somehow, intelligence gleaned from torture helped to capture and kill Osama bin Laden, in Abbotabad, Pakistan in 2011. Currently, the CIA is currently hanging their whole intelligence mosaic, as well as the justification for its torture policy, on an alleged courier for bin Laden.
In a true Wag the Dog moment, in the absence of any real evidence (no photos, or videos released) of the Abbottabad raid, CNN opted for the next best thing as their historical record a Hollywood film. With an official-sounding voice over running alongside a clip from the fictional film Zero Dark Thirty, this unbelievable line was delivered:
This interrogation depicted in the Hollywood blockbuster Zero Dark Thirty is believed to be that of Ammar al-Baluchi a dentainee who the CIA says, told them that al Kuwaiti was bin Ladens courier.
Fensteins Senate Intelligence Committee spent nearly five years reading and studying more than 6.3 million pages of CIA documents, including memos, reports, cables and chat, in order to assess the agencys enhanced interrogation techniques and rendition practices employed after September 11, 2001. The 6,000 page review was condensed to a 525-page summary which the committee released today.
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CIA Spent $40 million, Hacked Senate Computers to Suppress Torture Report
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