{"id":49042,"date":"2014-12-19T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/19\/the-case-against-the-torture-report.html"},"modified":"2014-12-19T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T22:04:00","slug":"the-case-against-the-torture-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/19\/the-case-against-the-torture-report.html","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against the Torture Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, America&#39;s attention is beginning to wander away from the Torture Report from the Senate Intelligence Committee &#8212; those gifts under the tree won&#39;t buy themselves, y&#39;know.  But I think it worth a link, for the record and future discussion, to this article by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), a member of that Senate Intelligence Committee, which takes the case that CIA officials, and their supporters, have put forward against the report: that it was a partisan hack job, that the writers of it aren&#39;t using good information, that lots of critical and actionable intelligence came from the CIA&#39;s &quot;interrogation program,&quot; etc., and directly addresses each point, including citations to the report itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20141217\/12061129469\/senator-wyden-responds-to-cia-defenders-distorting-truth-about-cia-torture.shtml\">https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20141217\/12061129469\/senator-wyden-responds-to-cia-defenders-distorting-truth-about-cia-torture.shtml<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6094671775791577073\/6094671784983403858'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-H9-bea5dMVo\/VJSfso6IHVI\/AAAAAAAC79o\/5g6M_nPETvY\/torture2.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/6xcuwNdeqYv'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, America&#39;s attention is beginning to wander away from the Torture Report from the Senate Intelligence Committee &#8212; those gifts under the tree won&#39;t buy themselves, y&#39;know. But I think it worth a link, for the record and future discussion, to this article by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), a member of that Senate Intelligence Committee, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/19\/the-case-against-the-torture-report.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Case Against the Torture Report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/torture2.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46769,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/05\/the-fight-against-secrets-lost-a-key-fighter-last-night.html","url_meta":{"origin":49042,"position":0},"title":"The fight against secrets lost a key fighter last night","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Nov-14 5:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While Mark Udall's name came up in the news the last several years because of his being a US Senator for my state, where I often also ran across him was dealing with the NSA, CIA, and other \"too many secrets\" organizations, in his role on the Senate Intelligence Community.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48859,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/mark-udall-breaks-some-additional-torture-information.html","url_meta":{"origin":49042,"position":1},"title":"Mark Udall breaks some additional torture information","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Dec-14 10:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Udall (D-CO) has been one of the loudest advocates for years on releasing information about intelligence agency abuses, both in this context and regarding surveillance activities, lambasting both the Bush and Obama administrations for their actions. He continued that today, discussing how\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48736,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/08\/dont-do-the-crime-if-you-cant-do-the-time-uh-huh-dont-do-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":49042,"position":2},"title":"Don&#039;t do the crime if you can&#039;t do the time (uh-huh, don&#039;t do it)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-Dec-14 12:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Intelligence Community Heads and Conservative Congressfolk (and Fox News): maybe the time to consider whether torture and similar acts might cause violence if they come out is before you do them. Using how others might react as an excuse to keep the truth buried doesn't make things better.(Note to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48850,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/shooting-the-torture-messenger.html","url_meta":{"origin":49042,"position":3},"title":"Shooting the torture messenger","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Dec-14 8:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the fascinating aspects over the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's torture regime has been the messaging from the opposition -- the GOP and fellow travelers -- along these lines:This is all just politics. The Dems were voted out so this is just their\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39283,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/meanwhile-back-at-the-cia.html","url_meta":{"origin":49042,"position":4},"title":"Meanwhile, back at the CIA","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Oct-13 10:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While taking pot shots at pols is easy and fun, I have to say that one of my senators, Mark Udall (mentioned here more than once), has been doing a heck of a job vs. intelligence community shell games and their declarations of sacrosanct secrecy. 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