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Has also increased due to a campaign of mistaken statements and press articles launched against the report before anyone has had the chance to read it. as a matter of fact, the report is just now, as i speak, being released. this is what it looks like. i -- senator chambliss asked me if we could have the minority report bound with the majority report for this draft that is not possible, but in the final draft it will be bound together. but this is what the summary of the 6,000 pages look like. m...

Report produced by congress in the time ive worked in national security. this was a precooked report, and the reason they didnt talk to people like hayden and jose rodriguez and other former cia officials is because they did not want this precooked report to be spoiled by inconvenient facts. jon: well, you know, talking about the facts, i have not read the report yet, i am just reading some of whats coming out about it because its only just now being released since we have taken air with this pr...

The white house now seems okay with the disclosure. what do you make of it? >> well, there are two things. one is, okay, one thing to actually investigate and do the report. theres another issue is why make the report public? why make the report prick now? -- public now? there should be one major rule in foreign policy like in medicine, first do no harm. by releasing this report now three thicks are going to happen -- things are going to happen. one, it gives excuse for a revenge attack on ameri...

Bin laden, they have all said they got a lot of intelligence from this. so it was legal, it was effective, why go after it now? unless the motivations completely political. congress is changing hands, the senate is going from democrat to republican hands, and are the democrats in the senate just -- theyve been evicted from the house, are they just trashing the place before they leave? shannon: well, theyre certainly getting the information out there over plenty of objections. kt, thank you for y...

Instruct its employees to participate in interviews. notwithstanding this, i am really confident of the factual accuracy and comprehensive nature of this report for three reasons. first, its the 6.3 million pages of documents reviewed, ask they reveal records of actions as those actions took place, not through recollections more than a decade later. second, the cia and cia senior officers have taken the opportunity to explain their views on cia detention and interrogation of operations. they hav...

Tried to stop it. so this characterization that it is a rogue operation is completely false. it is a false narrative. and, frankly, we cant afford this kind of thing. jon: cant afford what, the release of the report? what do you think ability the idea now that these many years later the senate intel committee is going to put these documents out there? >> well, look, first of all, we have the hit that were going to take in terms of morale, motivation in the agency. you want people to be aggressiv...

Documentation. but second, theres no doubt in my mind that mistakes were made in this program. there may have been some abuses, and thats why republicans wanted an honest evaluation of this program. it was conducted immediately in the aftermath of 9/11 when, basically, the white house was given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to defend our country against terrorism. of course some mistakes were made, and its a shame we didnt have an honest, bipartisan assessment of this program to find out...

Reason, we do not document and learn from our experience. each generation of officers is left to improvise anew with problematic results for our officers as individuals and for our agency. i believe that to be true. i agree with mr. helgerson. his comments are true today, but this must change. on march 11, 2009, the committee voted 14-1 to begin a review of the cias detention and interrogation program. over the past five years, a small team of committee investigators pored over the more than 6.3...

Techniques. i never found that they were necessary in the field. we didnt use them any place that i was in command. i dont think, though, thats the central issue regarding release of this report. jon: the central issue for you then would be what? the safety of agents and others who are out there? >> well, look, everybody who was involved in this program did so at the direction of the president of the united states with the full knowledge of the congress, with multiple layers of legal review and ...

Do you think this report should be released? >> well, jon, its worth noting that this report was originally approved on a bipartisan basis by all the republican members of the intelligence committee except for one, because there are republicans who had some problems with this, with this program, the enhanced interrogation program. when it became clear this was not going to be an objective investigation, the republicans pulled out. now, i was a cia analyst for 19 years, i was with the house intel...