It's becoming increasingly evident that the American people owe Leon Panetta and the honest staffers who wrote his sobering review of CIA practices a debt of gratitude.
Igor Volsky at ThinkProgress writes:
Following Tuesday’s release of a 600-page declassified summary, the CIA acknowledged
that the agency “did not always live up to the high standards that we
set for ourselves.” However, it insisted that “[o]ur review indicates
that interrogations of detainees on whom EITs were used did produce
intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists, and
save lives.”
Udall contradicted that statement, arguing that a classified 2011
internal review conducted by former CIA Director Leon Panetta “directly
refutes information in the Brennan response.”
“Director [John] Brennan and the CIA today are continuing to
willfully provide inaccurate information and misrepresent the efficacy
of torture,” Udall said, reiterating his call on Brennan to resign. “In other words, the CIA is lying.”
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