(December 9, 2014 at 9:35 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(December 9, 2014 at 8:31 pm)Heywood Wrote: I hope you are not taking this report as gospel truth. If a different people were in power those bullet points would be completely different.
I'm still digging through it.
What are your specific objections, and on what basis do you hold them?
I haven't read it so I don't have any objections. If I did read it I would keep a couple of things in mind. First, it is the work of Feinstein, while I disagree with her ideology, she is probably one of the only democrats that has any integrity. I'm glad to see her name attached to the work. Second, the purpose of this report wasn't to give an objective analysis of the actions of the CIA but rather to convince people the actions of the CIA were not in the best interest of the country. It has a political motivation behind it.
That being said, I do think it is a valuable tool when we examine in detail the actions of different government organizations. This includes examining the state department and White House action surrounding Benghazi, and the CIA and White House actions surrounding the interrogation of captive terrorist.
Really these interrogations should have been videotapped and those videotape released for public scrutiny after some period of time...when keeping them secret no longer provides strategic value.
