Explosive Senate Report on CIA Activities Could Incite Violence
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Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — U.S. embassies are bracing for possible retaliation when a Senate report on post-9/11 CIA interrogation techniques is released Tuesday.
The long-awaited exposé supposedly details now-banned procedures CIA interrogators used against terrorist suspects that included waterboarding and sexually demeaning detainees, even after concluding that no more information could be gleaned.
Since the Muslim world has erupted before when the West has been accused of religious and cultural offenses, all U.S. facilities around the world are being urged to review security and prepare for possible violence, with concern particularly high in the Middle East and North Africa.
At least one high-level Republican is calling for the Senate to delay the release of the report: House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers.
He told ABC’s This Week Sunday that whether the information is accurate or not, terror groups that include the Islamic State will “believe it’s true and they will take advantage of that. We know that ISIL propaganda operations will — this is the mother lode for them.”
Although the Obama administration supports the release of the report, Secretary of State John Kerry recently asked California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to consider the timing of the release.
Meanwhile, Rogers says it’s not just U.S. lawmakers warning about the potential for trouble, adding, “You have foreign leaders saying this report in its current form will incite violence. You have liaison partners in the intelligence community saying this will incite violence.”
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