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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 answer to questions and through the formal response to the committee in june 2013 after reading the study. ....
Tried to stop it. so this characterization that it is a rogue operation is completely false. it is a false narrative. and, frankly, we can t afford this kind of thing. jon: can t 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 we re going to take in terms of morale, motivation in the agency. you want people to be aggressive, to push the envelope to save lives, and simultaneously they re going to have to worry about whether they re going to be criminally prosecuted or subjected to civil suit. then we have the hit we re going to take overseas. the next time we go to some foreign nation or foreign intel service in the dead of night and ask them to help us on something and assure them that it will be kept secret, they re going to point to this report and these disclosures and likely refuse to cooperate. and people ....
Documentation. but second, there s no doubt in my mind that mistakes were made in this program. there may have been some abuses, and that s 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 it s a shame we didn t have an honest, bipartisan assessment of this program to find out what those mistakes were. jon: well, how would you have made it more honest? i mean, you say we needed an honest, bipartisan assessment. how would you have achieved that? we should have had republican and democratic staffers working cooperatively to determine the facts of this case. there would have been a bipartisan body of the report, and then republicans and democrats would submit additional views and where they didn t agree on the bipartisan body of the report. the bipartisan body of ....
This colorly is a period clearly is a period of turmoil and instability in many parts of the world. unfortunately, that s going to continue for the foreseeable future whether this report is released or not. there are those who will seize upon the report and say see what the americans did? and they will try to use it to justify evil actions or incite more violence. we can t 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 ....
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 cia s detention and interrogation program. over the past five years, a small team of committee investigators pored 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 cia s actions ....