CIA's Jose Rodriguez: Democrats Fully Briefed On Waterboarding

Geoff Earle at the New York Post offers a piece on former CIA officer Jose Rodriguez's response to the Senate's CIA report.

WASHINGTON — The former head of the CIA’s interrogation program says the agency gave its congressional overseers specific information about the tactics it used — including waterboarding — after Sept. 11.

“All of these people knew exactly what we were doing,” said Jose Rodriguez, who oversaw the program from 2002-2004 and gave the high-level briefings to Congress, to “Fox News Sunday.”

He said he personally briefed House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on “all of the techniques … she never objected to the techniques at all.”

He said specifically that he told her about waterboarding and sleep-deprivation.

“She knew, back in September of 2002, every one of our enhanced interrogation techniques,” Rodriguez said.    

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://nypost.com/2014/12/14/democrats-fully-briefed-on-waterboarding-after-911/

Note: You can read an earlier post on Jose Rodriguez vai the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2012/06/former-cia-official-reveals-truth-about.html

Former CIA Official Reveals The Truth About Waterboarding

Ronald Kessler, the veteran journalist and author of several books on the FBI and the CIA, offers an interesting column at Newsmax.com on a former CIA official who wrote a book defending waterboarding and other aggressive CIA actions after 9/11.

For nearly 10 years, we have been subjected to claims by critics and the media that CIA-enhanced interrogation and waterboarding were useless and constituted torture.

Jose Rodriguez Jr., the former chief of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, told the real story recently to a luncheon gathering of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO).
You can read the rest of Ronald Kessler's column via the below link:

http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/CIA-Official-Waterboarding-Rodriguez/2012/06/21/id/443019