Committee Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program MINORITY VIEW: The CIA Torture Report MINORITY VIEW

[On April 3, 2014 the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted to send the Findings and conclusions and it's EXECUTIVE SUMMARY of its final Study on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation program to the president for declassification and subsequent public release.]From the Minority View (Republican response to the EXECUTIVE SUMMARY):On August 24, 1009, Attorney general Eric Holder decided to re-open the criminal inquiry related to the interrogation of certain detainees in the CIA Detention and Interrogation program. Shortly thereafter, the minority withdrew from active participation in the Study when it determined that the Attorney general's decision would preclude a comprehensive review of the program since many of the relevant witnesses would likely decline to be interviewed by the Committee. Contrary to the Terms of Reference, the Study does not offer any recommendation for improving intelligence interrogation practices, intelligence activities, or covert actions. Instead, it offers 20 conclusions, many of which attack the CIA's integrity and credibility in developing and implementing the Program. Absent the support of the documentary record, and on the basis of a flawed analytical methodology, these problematic claims and conclusions create the false impression that the CIA was actively misleading policy makers and impeding the counterterrorism efforts of other federal government agencies during the Program's operation.We begin with an examination of the procedural irregularities that negatively impacted the Study's problematic claims and conclusions. - Saxby Chambliss, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman