MICHAEL SAVAGE: CHARGE FEINSTEIN WITH TREASON

◼ Kathy Shaidle recaps hottest discussions in America - WND

...Savage questioned the timing of the release of a report detailing CIA interrogation techniques that many critics describe as torture.

“There is no justification whatsoever for releasing the CIA torture report at a time when ISIS is on the rise,” he said, singling out Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., for criticism.

“Why isn’t she being charged with sedition or treason?” Savage asked, given that the report reveals highly sensitive information that could put American lives at risk...

On Tuesday’s show, Limbaugh told listeners that President Obama never personally signed any executive order in connection with his recent move providing amnesty for up to five million illegal immigrants.

“Folks, this is even more corrupt than anybody conceived!” he said. “He just wrote a memo instructing Homeland Security not to deport five million people. There is no actual executive order.”

“I'm a liberal on this show. I have no problem with it. To be honest with you, these are terrorists. We're trying to protect ourselves. You got to do what you got to do.”

◼ Liberals on MSNBC Panel Trash Senate Dems’ CIA Report

Morning Joe regulars Donny Deutsch and former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D., Tenn.) weighed in Friday on the recent CIA report, which has been harshly criticized as a strictly partisan report.

“I’m a liberal on this show. I have no problem with it,” Deutsch said. “To be honest with you, these are terrorists. We’re trying to protect ourselves. You got to do what you got to do.”

“I don’t know if I’m turning into a right-winger in my old age. We are not privy to a lot what’s going on in the world. I wonder how many people who lost friends and family — if we had done some of this earlier maybe we could have saved them,” Deutsche said. “If you said to me tomorrow, it’s a gray area but maybe doing this would save my children or my friend’s children, I go yes.”

◼ Chuck Todd on CIA report: 'You've got to remember the way things felt in the moment' - Eddie Scarry/Washington Examiner

NBC's "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd said Friday Americans are likely to be "very forgiving" about a new congressional report that says the CIA has in the past used extreme interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists.

◼ What Dianne Did - Roger L. Simon/PJM

Roger L. Simon agrees with Dennis Miller about Senator Dianne Feinstein and the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on enhanced terror techniques:

"Indeed just who would want to join our intelligence agencies, knowing they could be so easily sabotaged by people they thought were supporting, not to mention employing, them?"

The dust is far from settled regarding the condemnatory Senate report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of so-called torture with terror detainees. CIA Director John Brennan is disputing the report’s claim that those enhanced terror techniques were worthless and netted no information, while Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein insists that her report is correct. Former DCIA Michael Hayden and, not surprisingly, Dick Cheney had weighed in on Brennan’s side the day before.

My first thought was that this was all much ado about nothing. We have been hearing the same arguments about waterboarding and the like for the last six — or is it ten — years with the same people lined up pro and con. None of it is very new, although Feinstein and the media are pretending it is. Moreover, the release of the report was clearly timed to distract from the embarrassing appearance of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber before Congress. It also was rushed out before the new Republican Congress can deep six it after they are sworn in next year. (They had a point. No Republicans or, more importantly, CIA operatives who actually participated in the actions in question were interviewed for the report.)

All this is SOP in heavily politicized Washington...

But still I put this all down to the usual liberal roundelay with Dianne Feinstein competing against many of her ilk for “Moral Narcissist in Chief,” until I heard an outraged Dennis Miller on the radio Wednesday. He was treating this report as if it was the end of our country as we know it — and he had a point. His reason: who would join the CIA now knowing your own government doesn’t have your back? And we need the CIA more than ever in the covert struggle against the likes of ISIS, Iran, al Qaeda, North Korea, China and Russia.



◼ Cheney: Senate Report ‘Full of Crap’ - Washington Free Beacon

“We did exactly what we needed to do to catch those who were guilty on 9/11 and to prevent a further attack, and we were successful on both parts.”

◼ Ex-CIA Directors: Interrogations Saved Lives - Wall St. Journal

The Senate Intelligence investigators never spoke to us—the leaders of the agency whose policies they are now assailing for partisan reasons.

◼ CIA Director Calls Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Something ‘We Need To Come To Terms With’ - MRCTV

◼ A Tortured Report - Stephen Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn/Weekley Standard
◼ Thrice-married Mrs. Feinstein has given us a stunningly dishonest account. - Discussion at Lucianne

◼ Democrats’ CIA gambit backfires - Jennifer Rubin/Washington Post
◼ Somehow you knew this would happen. - Discussion at Lucianne

The CIA Torture Report's Purpose was to Take Focus Off Gruber and Obamacare

◼ The real story behind the release of the CIA ‘torture’ report - Joseph Curl/Washington Times

Senate Democrats and President Obama have moved up to a whole new level of desperate....

◼ Tuesday was a political "high point," –or "low point," if you prefer. - Freedom Outpost

Quite by design, at 11:00 AM Eastern Time, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, encouraged by the Democrat-controlled Senate and the Obama Administration, released a 528 ◼ Executive Summary of its $40 million, 6,000 page "Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program," uncovering the impropriety of ◼ methods used by the CIA to obtain information from high-ranking Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups responsible for the Trade Center bombing, among other things. The report is critical of the "enhanced interrogation" technique known as "waterboarding," plus other "tortures," such as playing loud music and sleep deprivation. Former senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE) ◼ writing in USA Today said, "I do not need to read the report to know that the Democrat staff alone wrote it. The Republicans checked out early when they determined that their counterparts started out with the premise that the CIA was guilty and then worked to prove it." They interviewed no CIA participants; issued no indictments or recommendations. The report will certainly be used to feed enemy terrorist propaganda....

◼ The Democrat Select Committee On Intelligence Releases Their “We Hate America” CIA Report… (Full 500+ Page pdf included) - Conservative Treehouse

The media is claiming CIA Director John Brennan is angry about the release of the CIA report…. Horsepucky! That is a complete and total ruse meant to deflect attention away from the real reasons why the former White House advisor, and fellow ideological traveler, was selected for the top job in the CIA.

Secondly, while the leftist ideologues are in a drama induced apoplectic feint about the Democrat Committee reports’ content, there is nothing within the report that is as bad as the previous leaks -around content- would have led anyone to believe.

However, that said, what the report does do is effectively accomplish it’s inherent goal. The goal of the report was to further diminish the influence of America through President Obama’s preferred method of Alinsky tactics: Isolate, Ridicule, Marginalize.

◼ As US tears itself apart over torture of terrorists, let's just remember who we're up against: ISIS throws man off roof to his death for being gay – and strings up ‘rapists’ in the streets - Henry Austin For Mailonline and Tom Wyke for MailOnline

An Islamic court ruled that he should be flung from the highest building
They posted the graphic images on a jihadist website
It is unknown whether the man died instantly from his injuries
This is the third execution for homosexuality in less than a month
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

◼ Senator calls for CIA chief's resignation after 'disturbing' discovery - Susan Crabtree/Washington Examiner

Sen. Mark Udall accused the CIA of continuing to mislead Congress and the public about his agency’s use of extreme interrogation techniques and called on President Obama to purge the agency of its top leadership, including Director John Brennan.

...“The president believes he has done an exemplary job in both of those roles,” Earnest said.

The comments sharply contrast Udall’s description of Brennan’s record at the CIA and the White House.

Udall accused the 25-year veteran of the CIA of trying to cover up a review of the extreme interrogation practices undertaken by Leon Panetta, Obama’s first CIA director. He also charged Brennan with “clinging to a false narrative about the effectiveness of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program.”

Peppered with questions about the effectiveness of the interrogation tactics, Earnest repeatedly declined to say whether the program produced actionable intelligence that helped save American lives, as Brennan forcefully argued in a statement reacting to the report’s release Tuesday.

In outlining his criticisms of the CIA’s “dismissive” reaction to the Senate investigators, Udall cited factual disparities between Brennan’s responses to committee questions and the Panetta Review. He said Senate staff obtained a partial version of the review when the agency inadvertently provided access to it during the panel’s nearly six-year investigation.

“In my view, the Panetta Review is a smoking gun,” he said, calling for the declassification and release of the entire review.

The entire Senate review, he said, leads to a “disturbing” discovery — that Brennan and the CIA are continuing to provide inaccurate information about the efficacy of the interrogation program.

“In other words, the CIA is lying,” he said.

◼ Senator Udall Reveals Classified Info in Blasting CIA - Rick Moran/PJMedia

Taliban Condemns US Torture, Then Takes Responsibility for Suicide Bombing http://t.co/Johp9xiHtR #tcot

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