Doesn’t appear that it’s going to be “we were pressured”, but “we did the right thing, and we’d do it again.”
Brennan will speak at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on Thursday.
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As the agency faces its gravest crisis in decades, John Brennan is expected to address growing pressure on the White House and the CIA to hold individuals to account for covering up the torture of terrorist suspects.
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Brennan, one of President Barack Obama’s most trusted security advisers, has sought to tread a fine line since the report was released on Tuesday. He said then that intelligence gained from enhanced interrogation techniques helped to “thwart attack plans, capture terrorists, and save lives”. However, the CIA no longer argues that torture works, with Brennan and the agency instead saying the efficacy of torture is “unknowable”.
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It was a “one-sided study marred by errors of fact and interpretation, essentially a poorly done and partisan attack on the agency that has done the most to protect America”, the former CIA directors George Tenet, Porter Goss and Michael Hayden wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
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Former top CIA officials created a website pointing out decade-old statements from senators Dianne Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller in apparent support of agency efforts.
Guardian
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