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REBUTTAL

THE CIA RESPONDS TO THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES STUDY OF


ITS DETENTION AND INTERROGATION PROGRAM
Edited by BILL HARLOW
The public debate over harsh interrogation techniques employed by the
United States in the aftermath of 9/11 gets a new contribution on
September 9, 2015, when the Naval Institute Press publishes: Rebuttal:
The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee's Study of Its
Detention and Interrogation Program.
The book combines easily readable and accessible versions of the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Minority report and the CIAs
own response to the highly controversial SSCI Majority report, which was
produced under the leadership of Sen. Dianne Feinstein and released in
December 2014. Rebuttal also contains original essays from eight senior
former intelligence officials who explain why in their view the SSCI
Majority report is badly flawed and misleading.
In late 2014 and early 2015 several publishing houses reprinted the SSCI
Majority report in book form, leaving the impression that the report,
produced solely by staffers from the Democratic majority, was the
definitive account of the interrogation tacticsdeemed torture by
criticsthat occurred during a tumultuous time in American history.
Former CIA Director George J. Tenet, in the introduction to Rebuttal,
writes that totally absent from the Senate Majoritys report are the testimony and recollections of officials at CIA, the
White House, the National Security Council, Department of Justice and even members of Congress themselves. Adding
that the Senate majority conducted no hearings, and interviewed no one with direct knowledge. None. It is vitally
important that the American public, scholars and historians have available to them the information contained in Rebuttal
concerning a most difficult and perilous time in our history. Tenet said that the SSCI Majority failed to conduct an
impartial investigation and failed to release a balanced report.
Rebuttal makes readily available the reports from the SSCI Minority and current CIA leadership, as well as essays
providing context and clarification from former high-ranking CIA officials.
Joining Tenet in writing Rebuttal are:
Porter J. Goss, a former director of CIA and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who
challenges the Feinstein reports assertions that the CIA misled its oversight committees about the interrogation program.
Gen. Michael V. Hayden, USAF, (Ret.), a former director of CIA and National Security Agency, who describes the
Feinstein report as perhaps the most flawed analytical document that I have seen in 40 years of government service.

John McLaughlin, a former deputy director of CIA and now a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies, who describes how the interrogation program contributed to locating Usama Bin Ladin,
capturing Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and nabbing Southeast Asian terrorist leader Hambali. He refutes the SSCI
Majoritys reports assertion that the CIA interrogation program did not substantially contribute to stopping future terrorist
attacks.
Michael Morell, a former deputy director of CIA, who writes that many in the media have accepted the Feinstein report
as being true, despite its many errors of fact, errors of context, and errors of logic. He illustrates each.
J. Philip Mudd, a former senior counterterrorism official for CIA and the FBI National Security Branch, who writes how
the benefits of long-term access to senior terrorists in CIA detention disappeared when the CIAs detention program
ended.
John Rizzo, former acting general counsel for CIA, who describes the legal underpinning for the enhanced interrogation
program, and the care with which CIA ensured that it had the full legal support of the Department of Justice and White
House before moving forward with the program.
Finally, Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., former chief of CIAs Counterterrorism Center and head of the National Clandestine
Service, who describes the context in which the interrogation program was initiated and his concern about the adverse
effects of the Feinstein report on current CIA officers. Noting that he and his colleagues operated with the assurance that
they had the full backing of the White House, Department of Justice and congressional oversight committees, current
officers continue to receive such assurances. [I]t would be easy for Agency officers to assume that pledges of support are
written in quicksand, Rodriguez writes. As a result they will be tempted to avoid taking risks.
Bill Harlow, who is a former spokesman for the White House, Pentagon and CIA, and editor of Rebuttal, says that the
former officials undertook the project because the truth, context and safety of the nation matter, and they did not want to
allow the Feinstein report to stand as the final word on an important and complex chapter in American history.
The contributors to Rebuttal have designated the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation, an organization which provides educational and family
assistance to the children and spouses of CIA officers who die in the line of duty, as the recipient of proceeds that otherwise might be due
them as a result of sales of this volume.

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REBUTTAL: THE CIA RESPONDS TO THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES STUDY OF


ITS DETENTION AND INTERROGATION PROGRAM
edited by Bill Harlow
Publication Date: 9 September 2015
ISBN: 978-1-59114-587-5 | Paperback list price: $16.95 | 392 pages
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