Family and all of her loved ones the comfort of knowing what an extraordinary woman what extraordinary senator Dianne Feinstein was. Without madam president i would yield the floor. Those were tribute to senator Dianne Feinstein three decades in the senate made her the longestserving female u. S. Senator. She passed away at last night at the age of 90. Up next a look back at senator feinstein in 2014 when she served as chair of the Senate Intelligence committee. At the time she delivered a Senate Floor Speech about the committees report on the cia detention and interrogation techniques. Ask the senator from california progress mr. Present him to thank the leader for his words and for his support. They are extraordinarily welcomed and appreciated. Today, a 500 page executive summary of the Senate Intelligence committees five and a half year review of the cia detention and Interrogation Program which was conducted between 2002 and 2009 is being released publicly. The executive summary which is going out today is backed by 6700 page classified and unredacted report with 38000 footnotes. Which can be released if necessary at a laterer time. The report released today examines cia secret overseas detention of at least 119 individuals and the use of coercive interrogation techniques in some, cases amounting tot torture. Over the past g couple of weeks ive gone through a great deal of introspection about whether to delay the release of this report to a later time. This clearly is a period of turmoil and instability in many parts of the world. Unfortunately that is going tole continue for the foreseeable future. Whether this report is released or not. Those who will seize upon the report states seal at the see what the americans and they will try to use it to justify evil actions or incite more violence. We cannot prevent that. But history will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. There may never be the right time to release this report. The instability we see today will not be resolved in months or years but this report is too important to shelve indefinitely. My determination to release it 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, it being released. This is what it looks like. Senator chandler asked me if we got the minority report found with the majority report for t this draft, that is not possible. But in the final draft it will be bound together. But this is what the summary of the 6000 pages look like. Might words to give me no pleasure. R i am releasing this report because i know there are thousands of employees at the cia who do not condone what i will speak about this morning. Hoot day and night long hours within the law for americas security and what is certainly a difficult world. My colleagues on the Intelligence Committee and i am proud of them. Just as everyone in this chamber is. And we will always support them. N looming over the public release, i was struck by a quote found on page 126 of the executive summary. It cites the former c. I. A. Inspector general, john hell Inspector General, john hell who, in 2005, wrote the following to the thendirector of the cia which clearly states the situation with respect to this report years later as well, and i quote we have found that the agency, over the decades, has continued to get itself into messes related to Interrogation Programs for one overriding reason. Idwe 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. Halverson. His a comments are true today tt this must change. On march 11, 2009, the committee voted 141 to begin a review of the cias detention and Interrogation Program. Over the past five years, a small team of Committee Investigators poredded over the more than 6. 3 million pages of cia records the leader spoke about to complete this report or what we call the study. It shows that the cias actions a decade ago are a stain on our value and on our history. The release of this 500page summary cannot remove that stain, but it can and does say to our people and the world that america is big enough to admit when its wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes. Releasing this report is an important step to to restore our values and show the world that we are, in fact, a just and lawful society. Over the next hour, id like to lay out for senators and the American Public the reports key findings and conclusions, and i ask that when i complete this, senator mccain be recognized. Before i get to the substance of the report, id like to make a few comments about why its so important that we make this study public. All of us have vivid memories of that Tuesday Morning when terror struck new york, washington and pennsylvania. Make no mistake, september 11th, 2011, war was declared on the United States. Terrorists struck our financial center, they struck our military center, and they tried to strike our Political Center and would have had brave and courageous passengers not brought down the plane. We still vividly remember the mix of outrage and deep despair and sadness as we watched from washington smoke rising from the pentagon, the passenger plane lying in a pennsylvania field, the sound of bodies striking at ground level as innocents jumped to the ground below from the world trade center. Mass terror that we often see abroad had struck us directly in our front yard killing 3,000 innocent men, women and children. What happened . We came together as a nation with one singular mission, bring those who committed these acts to justice. But its at this point where the values of america come into play, where the rule of law and the fundamental principleses of right and wrong become important. Inint. 19920 United States senae ratified 19920 the United States senate ratified against torture. The convention makes clear this ban against torture is absolute. It says, and i quote no exceptional circumstances whatsoever including what i just read whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency may be invoked as a justification for torture. End quote. Nonetheless, it was argued that the need for information on possible additional terrorist plots after 9 11 made if extraordinarych interrogation techniques necessary. Even if one were to set aside all of the moral if arguments, our review was a meticulous and detailed examination of records. It finds that coercive interrogation techniques did the not produce the vital otherwise unavailable intelligencege the a has claimed. I will go into further detail on this issue in a moment, but let me make clear these comments are not a condemnation of the cia as a whole. The cia plays an incredibly important part in our nations curt and has security and has thousands of dedicated and talented employees. What we have found is that surprisingly few people were responsible for designing, carrying out and managing this program. To two contractors two contractors developed and led the interrogations. There was little effective oversight. Si analysts, analysts on occasion gave operational orders that interrogations and cia management of the program was weak and diffused. If our final report was approved by a bipartisan vote of 96 in december 2012 and exposes brutality in stark contrast to oour values as a nation. This effort was focused on the actions of the cia from late 2001 to january of 2009. The report does not include considerable detail on the cias interactions with the white house excuse me, it does include considerable detail on the cias interactions with the white house,it the departments f justice, state, defense and the Senate Intelligence committee. The review is based on contemporaneous records and documents during the time the program was many place and active. Now, these documents are important because they arent based on recollections, they arent based on revision, and they arent a rationalization a decade later. Its these documents referenced repeatly in thousands of repeatedly in thousands of footnotes that provide the factual basis for the studys conclusions. The committees majority staff review ised more than 6. 3 million pages of these documents provided by the cia as well as records from other departments and agencies. These records include finished intelligence assessments, cia operational and intelligence cables, memoranda, emails, realtime chat sessions, inspector e general reports, testimony r before congress, pik etures and other pictures and other internal records. Its true we didnt conduct our own interviews, and let me tell you why that was the case. In 2009 there was an ongoing review by department of justice special prosecutor john durham. On august 24th, attorney general holder expanded that review. This t occurred six months after our study had begun. Durhams original investigation of the cias destruction of interrogation videotapes was broadened to include possible criminal action of cia employees in the course of cia detention and interrogation activities. At the time, the committees vice chairman, kit bond, withdrew the minoritys participation in the study citing the attorney generals expanded investigation as the reason. The department of justice refused to coordinate its investigation with the9 Intelligence Committees review. As aas result, possible interviewees could not could be subject to additional liability if they were interviewed. And the cia, citing the attorney generals g investigation, would not instruct its employees to participate in interviews. Notwithstanding in this, i am really confident of the fact i chul accuracy factual act accuracy and comprehensive nature of this report for three reasons. First, its the 6. 3 million pagess of documents reviewed. And 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 haves taken the opportunity to explain their views on cia detention and interrogation operations. They have done this in onrecord statements onrecord statements, written testimony and answer to questions, and through the formal response to the committee in june 2013 after reading the study. And third, the committee had access to and utilized an extensive set of reports of interviews conducted by the cia inspect or i general and the cias oral history program. So while we could not conduct new interviews of individuals, we did utilize transcripts or summaries of interviews of those directly engaged in detention and and interrogation operations. These interviews occurred at the time the program was operational and and covered the exact topics we would have asked about had we conducted interviews ourselves. These interview reports and transcripts included but were not limited to the following george tenet, director of the cia when the agency took custody and interrogated the thetu majority of detainees, jose rodriguez, director of the cias counterterrorism center, a key player in the a program, cia general counsel scott muller, cia Deputy Director of operations james cia acting general counsel john rizzo and cia Deputy Director john mclachlan. And a variety of interrogators, lawyers, medical personnel, senior counterterrorism analysts and managers of the detention and Interrogation Program. Place to start about how we got into this, and im delighted that senator rockefeller is on the floor, is a little more than eight years ago in september, on september 6th, 2006, when the committee met to be briefed by thendirector michael haden. At that 2006 meeting, the full committee learned for the first time, for the first time, of the of socalled enhanced interrogation techniques, or eits. It was a short meeting in part because president bush was making a public speech later that day disclosing officially for the first time the existence of cia black sites and announcing the transfer of 4 detainees 14 detainees from ciaa custody to guantanamo bay, cuba. It was the first time the Interrogation Program was explained to the full committee as a details had previously been limited to the chairman and vice chairman. Then, on december 7th, 2007, the New York Times reported that cia personnel in 2005 had destroyed videotapes of the interrogation of two cia detainees. The cias first detainee, abu sa bide da, as well as rahimal as what herly. The committee had not been informed of the destruction of the tapes. Daysbe later, the committee hela hearing on the destruction of the videotapes. Director haden, the primary witness, testified that the cia a had concluded that the destruction of videotapes was acceptable many part because with in part because congress had not yet requested to see them. My source is our committees transcript december 11th, 2001. 2007. Director haden stated that if the committee had asked for the videotape ises, they would have been provided. But, of course, the committee had not known that the videotapes existed. And we now know from cia emails and records that the videotapes were destroyed shortly after cia attorneys raised concerns that Congress Might find out about the tapes. Many any case in any case, at that same december 11th committeect hearing, director haden told the committee that cia cables related to the interrogation sessions depicted in the videotapes were, and i quote, a more than adequate representation of the tapes and, therefore, if you want them, well give you access to them. That thats our transcript december 11th 2007 hearing. Senator rockefeller, thenchairman of the committee, designated two members of the Committee Staff to review the cables describing the interrogation sessions of the detainees. Senator bond, thenvice chairman, similarly directed two of his staff theres to review the cables staffers to review the cables. The designated Staff Members completed their review and compiled a summary of the contents of the cia cables by early 2009. By which time i had become chairman. The description in the cables of cias interrogations and the treatment of detainees presented a starkly different picture from director hadens testimony before the committee. They described brutal, around the clock interrogations, especially of abu sa bide da in which multiple coercive techniques were used in combination and with stable repetition substantial repetition. It was an ugly, visceral description. The summary also indicated that they did not, as a result of the use of these socalled eits, provide the kind of intelligence that led the cia to stop terrorist plots or arrest additional suspects. As a result, i think its fair to say the entire committee was concerned, and it aa proved the scope of an investigation by a vote of 41 141, and the work began. In my march 111th, 2014, floor speech about the study, i described how in 2009 the committee came to an agreement with the new cia director, leon panetta, for access to documents is and other records about the ciing as detention and Interrogation Program, so i wont repeat that here. Finish from 20092012, our staff conducted a massive and unprecedented review of cia records. Draft sections of the report were produced by late 2011 and shared with the full committee. The final w report was completed in december 2012 and approved by the committee by a bipartisan vote of 96. After that vote, i sent the full report to the president and asked the administration to provide comments on it before it was release. Sixx months later, in june of 2013, the cia responded. I directed them that if the cia pointed out any error in our report, we would fix it. And is we did fix one bullet point that did not impact our findings and conclusions. If the cia came to a different conclusion than the report did, we would note that in the report and explain our reasons for disagreeing if we disagreed can. And you will see some of that footnotes of that executive summary as well as in the 6,000 pages. In april 2014, the committee prepared an updated version of the full study and voted 123 to declassify andsi and release the executive summary, findings and conclusions and minority and additional views. On august 1, we received the declassified version from the executive branch. It was immediately apparent that the redactions to our report prevented a clear and understandable reading of the study and prevented us from substantiating the findings and conclusions. So we obviously objected. For the past four months, the committee and the cia, the director of National Intelligence and the white house have engaged in a lengthy negotiation over the redactions to the report. We had been able to include some more information in the report today without sacrificing sources and methods of our the or our national security. Id like to ask following my remarks that a letter from the white house dated yesterday conveying the report also a points out that the report is 93 complete andmp and that the redactions amount to 7 of the bulk of the report. Withoutwi objection. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Minnesota, this has been mr. President , this has been a long process. The work began seven years ago when senator rockefeller directed Committee Staff to review the cia cables describing the interrogation sessions of the two the detainees. Its been very difficult. But i believe documentation and the findings and conclusions will make clear how this program was morally, legally and administratively misguided. And ask that this nation and that this nation should never again edge engage in these tactics. Let me now turn to the contents of the study. As i noted, we have 20 the findings and conclusions which fall into 4 general categories. First, the cias enhanced interrogation techniques were not an effectiv