Feinstein Slams New Book by Former CIA Officials

Newsweek
By: Jeff Stein

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Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of the CIA’s controversial interrogation program, said Saturday that a new, critical book by some top former CIA officials “doesn’t lay a glove” on her panel’s conclusions that the agency carried out torture to get information that had already been extracted by “more traditional and acceptable ways…”

In a recent Newsweek interview before publication of the new book was announced, former top FBI counterterrorism agent Ali Soufan expressed amazement that “we are still debating if torture is good idea or not.”

Soufan, who conducted interrogations of Al-Qaeda suspects, added that the “6,000 pages of the Senate inquiry, the 600-page executive summary [and its] 38,000 footnotes, not to mention all other reviews, such as the CIA’s own Inspector General report, all came up with the same conclusion: Torture does not work and is harmful to our national security.”

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