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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. my words give me no pleasure. i'm releasing this report because i know there are thousands of employe...

Report produced by congress in the time i've worked in national security. this was a precooked report, and the reason they didn't 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 what's coming out about it because it's only just now being released since we have taken air with this program. but, for instance, one of the conclusions of the report is that there were a number of ot...

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. there's 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 americans. secondly, foreign intelligence agencies look at this and say we can't trust america to keep s...

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 motivation's completely political. congress is changing hands, the senate is going from democrat to republican hands, and are the democrats in the senate just -- they've been evicted from the house, are they just trashing the place before they leave? shannon: well, they're certainly getting the information out there over plenty of objections. kt, thank you for your expertise. >> thanks, shannon. jon: so that is the report coming out led by democratic senato...

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, it's 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 have done this in on-the-record statements in classified committee hearings, written testimony and ans...