MSNBC: John Kerry Called Feinstein, Asked Her To Be ‘Considerate’ About CIA Report
“The White House now says that it will be released tomorrow, and that is the domain of the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein. And she has been working on this along with her colleagues for years. I’ve been talking to staffer who have had many late nights working weekends, lots of extra hours, put on this voluminous report, part of which will be made public. And there’s been an ongoing sort of intense negotiation about what should be redacted, what should be permitted to be made public to not expose sources, methods, assets that the U.S. may have, but at the same time being able to put some accountability and transparency on this long-running program of what the CIA did, known as enhanced interrogation techniques at the time. Critics have called it torture. Who was responsible for this? What did the CIA say at the time? Were they truthful, not truthful?
Lots of stuff in this that could potentially incite violence. That's one of the concerns of the people in the intelligence community. Some Republicans on the committee have said, don’t release certain parts of this because it could trigger violence, especially because the underlying nature of this is so explosive. At the same time, Democrats have been pressing including Secretary of State John Kerry who had called Dianne Feinstein and said that he wanted her to be considerate about the timing of the release given enough time for embassies around the world and so for to have extra security. So, the White House now says it will happen tomorrow. Much of what’s been in the report has been known, but this is one of those things that will bringing an end to the chairmanship of Dianne Feinstein on this committee because Republicans will be in charge in January. They may have looked at this quite differently as to what could be released. It will be an important way to look at that program and how it -- how it has a place in what was then the war on terror and the ongoing battles we have now."
