Posted on 12/15/2014 1:52:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Jose Rodriguez, the former chief of the CIA Clandestine Service, says that many Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, were fully aware of the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques program - including waterboarding and sleep deprivation - since 2002.
Some Democrats who have criticized the actions described in the Senate report on torture were aware of each of the techniques — including waterboarding and sleep deprivation — as far back as 2002, a former top CIA official said Sunday.
Jose Rodriguez, the former chief of the CIA Clandestine Service, said he briefed Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in 2002 on each of the interrogation tactics approved by the Justice Department.
“I briefed her on all of the techniques. These people were fully aware of all of the techniques approved by the Department of Justice and legal counsels,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” “She never objected to the techniques at all.”
He said many members of Congress actually told CIA officials that they needed to be doing more to protect the country.
“Their biggest thing that they told me was, ‘Your problem is that you guys are risk averse. ‘You have to go out and give the authorities you’ve been given to protect America,’” he said.
A Senate report released last week found that CIA officials used tactics like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, rectal feedings, physical violence and threats to family members on those with suspected ties to terrorist organizations. The report found that the torture techniques didn’t produce any valuable intelligence and that, in some cases, the CIA had gotten the wrong person and ended up letting the suspected terrorist go after torturing him.
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So they are hypocrites? What else is new?
Pelosi is senile. She has a biological reason for forgetting.
Of course they knew - this is nothing more than the CRY BABIES having their last tantrum before they are forced out...
I wonder if the new GOP Brat Club will be any different?!?!
Rockefeller admitted being briefed and then said he was threatened to not raise a stink. What a loser.
It’s been know for a long time that the Dem leadership was briefed on this. It’s absurd to think that they did not know. Either Diane Feinstein knew or she wasn’t doing her job.
No new info at all, one-sided partisan junk.
Something for the MSM and lefties to harp on instead of Amnesty, Obamacare, Foreign Policy.
I wanna know,,,, when did Fienstein know?
The communists Democrats are at full course press on destroying America. They are trying to set up the communists to bring America to a full dictatorship with their party in control. Americans are still asleep for the most part.
So he’s a coward as well?
Of course Pelosi, Feinstein, et al knew about it. This release is Feinstein’s revenge for CIA “spying” on the Senate Intelligence Cmte.
Of course they all knew about it. This is just chump bait for the LIV’s.
Feinstein means Treason.
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