Senator Publicizes Classified CIA Report To Prove The Agency Is Lying

Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) blasted the Obama administration for helping the CIA cover-up its enhanced interrogation program during a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday morning. The outgoing Colorado senator publicized the contents of a classified CIA report that directly contradicts public statements the Agency has made about the Senate’s explosive analysis of the Bush-era techniques.

Following Tuesday’s release of a 600-page declassified summary, the CIA acknowledged that the agency “did not always live up to the high standards that we set for ourselves.” However, it insisted that “[o]ur review indicates that interrogations of detainees on whom EITs were used did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists, and save lives.”

Udall contradicted that statement, arguing that a classified 2009 internal review conducted by former CIA Director Leon Panetta “directly refutes information in the Brennan response.”

“Director [John] Brennan and the CIA today are continuing to willfully provide inaccurate information and misrepresent the efficacy of torture,” Udall said, reiterating his call on Brennan to resign. “In other words, the CIA is lying.”

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