Dianne Feinstein is the senior U.S. senator from California. She was the first woman to chair the Senate Intelligence Committee (2009-2015), where she led a six-year review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program and a bipartisan investigation of the Benghazi attacks. She is also a longtime member of the Judiciary, Appropriations and Rules committees.
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With the departure of U.S. and coalition forces from Afghanistan earlier this year, the United States ended the central front of its longest war. However, one relic from that war remains: The indefinite detention of presumed combatants at Guantanamo Bay.
Protecting whistleblowers and officials who speak truth to power is the responsibility of every member of Congress.
I was extremely disappointed to read Professor Amy Zegart’s post regarding the Senate Intelligence Committee’s study of the CIA Detention and Interrogation Program. Not only did it include factually inaccurate statements, it also appeared to blame the Committee for the impediments imposed on the Study by the Executive Branch.
My staff has compiled a detailed description of the inaccurate and misleading statements included in Ms. Zegart’s post, which appears below.