Tensions grew Sunday over the impending release of a Senate report examining the alleged use of torture by the CIA, with a top House lawmaker saying that the release will cause “violence and deaths” abroad.<\/p>\n
The comments by Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, came after Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday urged Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the senator in charge of the report on CIA interrogations, to reconsider the timing of the release. Obama administration officials said they still support making the report public.<\/p>\n
Rogers is regularly briefed on intelligence assessments. He told CNN’s “State of the Union” that U.S. intelligence agencies and foreign governments have said privately that the release of the report on CIA interrogations a decade ago will be used by extremists to incite violence that is likely to cost lives.<\/p>\n
“I think this is a terrible idea,” Rogers said. “Our foreign partners are telling us this will cause violence and deaths…Foreign leaders have approached the government and said, ‘You do this, this will cause violence and deaths.’ Our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and deaths.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course, unless the report says that we beheaded detainees (and I’m 100% positive that it doesn’t) I don’t see what’s to get the “world” upset. We already know that torture these days includes heinous behavior like keeping someone awake for a few days, playing loud, crappy music from 80’s Hair Bands, and washing a subject’s face with a wet wash cloth. We don’t cause real pain, just discomfort, but because of our own personal guilt trips, we’ve armed the enemy with propaganda. Would you rather spend five years at Guantanamo or five years living like Bowe Bergdahl? With the threat of the fate of Daniel Pearl every day?<\/p>\n
The worst thing that has happened to any of our detainees is that a really ugly chick from West Virginia pointed at their genitalia. And she was punished for it.<\/p>\n
Our only real crime was allowing stank-ass hippies to define what is terror. And now Senate Democrats are holding us hostage by threatening to release the information on their way out the door. Go ahead and release it, Feinstein, I don’t give a rat’s ass. It’s just like the valor thieves who threaten to release my military records – do it. Get it over with. It’s just another wet firecracker, anyway.<\/p>\n
And that stupid excuse “we’re better than they are” is wearing thin. How’s that working out for us?<\/p>\n
But the bottom line is that this administration thinks that terrorists will attack Americans worldwide if these reports are released, and the Senate Democrats just don’t care who gets killed as a result. Because their side paid a price for bad policy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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