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Brennan Lied To Congress
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/01/ex-cia-lawyer-defends-interrogation-program-as-obama-says-looming-report-will/
Ex-CIA lawyer defends interrogation program, as Obama says looming report will detail torture
By Catherine Herridge
Published August 02, 2014
FoxNews.com
EXCLUSIVE: A senior CIA lawyer who was intimately involved in the agency’s “enhanced” interrogation program defended the controversial practices in an interview with Fox News and likened a Senate Democrat-led investigation to a kangaroo court bent on condemning the Bush-era practices.
The comments from former CIA lawyer John Rizzo came as President Obama signaled Friday that the probe’s forthcoming report will show “we tortured some folks.”
Rizzo, though, suggested the investigation was unfair in the way it was conducted.
“I’m a lawyer, but you don’t have to be a lawyer to understand, I think, that this was and is a star chamber proceeding,”Rizzo told Fox News on Friday.
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My country tortured people.
