Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
REBUTTAL
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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