WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Sen. Dianne Feinstein brushed aside an urgent 11th-hour plea from Secretary of State John Kerry and opposition from the Obama administration to release a report Tuesday detailing the CIA’s extreme interrogation of suspected terrorists in the months and years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Kerry and other U.S. officials have warned of unrest and potential violence at U.S. facilities around the world if Feinstein moved forward and released the report, the culmination of five years of research and investigations by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Feinstein said she decided to move forward with disclosing a 500-page summary of the 6,200-page report because the country needed to provide a complete accounting of exactly what the government did to protect its citizens after the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon killed nearly 3,000 people.
“There will be those who seize on the report to justify evil actions to incite violence,” she said during remarks Tuesday on the Senate floor. “But history will judge us on our commitment [as Americans] and our willingness to face an ugly truth and say ‘never again.'”
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