The US Senate document spells out some very troubling realities beyond 'the idea' that bizarre treatment of human beings were helpful.
The facts are the facts. The law is the law. These are not grey issues. I don't find Director Brennan's statement about how the CIA can explain away the infractions of treatment of human beings as a reason to disdain the US Senate report.
The USA can't simply discuss changing direction on the treatment of prisoners on foreign soil as a matter of daily business. The allies of the USA that may have assisted with these VIOLATIONS of treaties made for the sole purpose of preventing the torture of human beings were not in the room when the discussion about tweaking torture beyond any agreed standard. How can the Director of the CIA be so repugnant to the facts complied by the US Senate?
The Senate wasn't in the room where it was decided to throw out the rule book and simply torture people because the CIA in all it's arrogance thought it prudent.
This only confirms Rumsfeld's Cabal and how that culture ran rampant in all the areas of government concerning war.
The CIA decided the end justifies the means no matter the form or offense. That is not law, it is however arrogance. The USA is it's own sovereign authority with ties to other nations. Brennan is offensive in his idea of FAIRNESS. Fairness. There needs to be fairness in the chambers of the great CIA? Somehow the people of the USA are missing the point that the CIA has to be treated with fairness and regard.
Where USA agencies decide they can make up their rules and activities as they happen, who then has control and will the actions taken benefit the USA or another country or interest? No, sir, the CIA is wrong and the USA is worse for it.
Brennan should have conducted an apology to the people of this country for the facts now before it.
I am sure there are other qualified people such as Joe Wilson or someone he may recommend that can handle the directorship of the CIA with better outcomes within the standards the country has set as limits in the CIA's practice. Mr. Brennan is too offended by the questions and obviously occupied with a defense of his leadership to stay in that capacity.
