(GINGRICH PRODUCTIONS)
By Newt Gingrich
There is NO Senate Report on torture.
Two big lies have been perpetrated on the American people.
The first lie is the partisan, dishonest, irresponsible, and destructive left-wing attack disguised as an Intelligence Committee report.
The second lie is the elite media deliberately overlooking the partisan, divisive and deeply disputed report and pretending it represents the verdict of the U.S. Senate.
First, lets look at just how dishonest and deceitful this report is.
There is a 528 page “Executive Summary” of a 6,000 page classified report based on more than a million documents turned over by the Central Intelligence Agency.
These numbers tell you several things.
First, you can make money betting that no Senator has read all 6,500 pages. This is a staff-written and staff-driven document in which left-wing employees got to smear the American intelligence community without serious supervision.
Second, it is astonishing that with all those pages, the Democratic staff asked no one at the CIA about the topic.
As President Obama’s Director of Central Intelligence said in yesterday’s press conference, “Unfortunately, the committee could not agree on a bipartisan way forward and no CIA personnel were interviewed by the committee during the course of the investigation.”
Let me repeat this to drive it home. According to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, “NO CIA PERSONNEL WERE INTERVIEWED BY THE COMMITTEE.”
