Krauthammer’s Take: Senate Dems ‘Intended to Hang CIA Out to Dry’

Krauthammer’s Take: Senate Dems ‘Intended to Hang CIA Out to Dry’ (National Review)

Was the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the CIA an objective fact-finding mission? Hardly, says Charles Krauthammer.

“I think the central question is, how could the committee have released a report without ever having interviewed a single person involved? When we have a criminal trial, we actually interview the witnesses, the people who were there, and often the people involved. We don’t rely entirely on documents, because you need to know the context, you need to know what was in the mind of the person referred to.”

That did not happen in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report: “When Feinstein is asked about this, her answer is, there was a concurrent investigation by the Department of Justice and, thus, we were not able to interview them. Well, that is total rubbish, because the investigation ended in 2012. It’s now the end of 2014. They had over two years to interview and talk to anybody involved, including the highest officials, who were never excluded from interrogation in principle, but who were never spoken to.”

“No rebuttal, no context, no statements,” said Krauthammer, “. . . tells me that they had a single intent: hanging the CIA out to dry; and they went looking for the evidence that fit.”