The Feinstein Report
Tue, 2014-12-16 18:40
News Staff
by Tom Haughey
We learned last week that Democrat staffers of senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee somehow spent $40 million producing a report on “enhanced interrogations” which have been banned for around six years. The Justice Department and other government agencies concluded their own investigations into the practice long ago and declined to prosecute anyone. The new report, for its part, contains zero testimony and makes no recommendations. It is simply a compilation of extracts from e-mails. It criticizes the CIA for supposedly withholding information from the Intelligence Committee. Upon reviewing the report the Administration reiterated that it had no intention of charging anyone with a crime. At this point I must say I want my $40 million back. I would also like a really cheap investigation to determine how a report put together by salaried senate staffers from e-mails collected from salaried CIA staffers could possibly cost taxpayers anything (let alone $40 million). I would like to know what the rationale was for doing the investigation in the first place when the practice had been abandoned and it had already been determined no action would be taken against anyone for civil rights violations or war crimes.