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September 4

September 4

NEW TWIST ON “TORTURE.”  Why are eight senior former CIA officials keeping the “enhanced interrogation” (AKA “torture”) issue alive?  Because they are pissed.  Former CIA Directors Tenet, Goss and Hayden – joined by five other senior spooks – are  publishing a book called “Rebuttal”  next week that renews the fight against the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on harsh interrogation. More than a dozen different outfits have taken  Sen.Dianne Feinstein’s 2014 report and re-published it in book form.  The ex-Agency folks are especially unhappy that the so-called “Feinstein Report” has been accorded the status in some circles of being the definitive word on the subject.  In  Rebuttal, the ex-officials publish the CIA and SSCI Minority responses, along with essays of their own on why they think Team DiFi got it wrong.

Unlike the revenue from the profit-making book versions of the Feinsten report, proceeds from the sale of Rebuttal will go to the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation, which supports the children and spouses of fallen Agency officers.

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