the e-mails that he wrote. and actually said he couldn t quite remember about that e-mail, which is one of the reasons why the e-mails are so powerful. it doesn t rely on someone s memory of what they said at a particular time. this is contecontemporaneous. he wrote this on that day about these events. and i want to get to one of the descriptions in this report of how this was run at one of the detention sites. the cia officer in charge of detention site cobalt was a junior officer on his first overseas assignment with no previous experience or training in handling prisoners or conducting interrogations. cia officer 1 was the detention site cobalt manager during the period in which a cia detainee died and numerous cia detainees were subjected to unapproved coercive interrogation techniques. and of course, it s no surprise that they didn t have anyone who knew how to do this. the cia wasn t in the business of doing this kind of torture.
over his panl, he highlighted every single line on every page. he couldn t find a word about a subject that he cared about that he dnd didn t think was important. most public score cards are useless. bills passed in their name. that doesn t tell you very much because the credit for passing legislation is usually far too complex to assign to any individual. jay rockefeller dependent run for senate thinking i want to get there so that i can someday investigate the cia. that was a role that history presented to senator rockefeller and that he accepted and for ten years became the subject of his singular focus and relentless effort. 1/3 of his senate career was devoted to the work that was presented to the senate today. 1/3 of jay rockefeller s senate career was dedicated to doing something that possibly no other government on earth would do, dig into an important secret
the world. there s no good time something like this. senator feinstein gave credit where credit is due including the man who started what eventually became senator feinstein s investigation. first, i thank senator rockefeller. he started this project by directing his staff to review the operational cables that describe the first recorded interrogations after we learned that the videotapes of those sessions had been destroyed. and that report was what led to this multiyear investigation. without it we wouldn t have had any sense of what happened. without jay rockefeller, we would have learned nothing about the cia today. john d. rockefeller iv s great grandfather was america s richest man. his grandfather built rockefeller center, including
conclusive. they state conclusions in there but they don t have the factual basis. it was sufficient for the fbi to open a file, interview him, interview neighbors and his family and determine what level of risk they believe was possible. at that point they have a number of opportunities as to what they can do including having the person follow him. but they have thousands of people on the lists and they have to triage them as to who they think are important. that s right. and that could be part of why this happened. let me ask you. so the fbi says, all right, we don t think there is anything here. the russians then go to the cia. the cias is we want this guy added to the terror watch list which doesn t happen although he is in other data bases. he then goes to a location in russia that is a hot bed for islamic extremism, comes home and starts posting videos on the web of a radicalizer, a radical a person who is known to make bombs and kill people. when you think about that, how
would hear oral arguments about detainees having access to supreme courts. that decision came in june of that year. the terrorists were then sent back to black site prisons until president bush s announcement in september 2006 that you just heard that they were being sent to guantanamo to face military tribunals and that s where they still are today, wolf. all of this coming in from the associated press. what is the cia saying about this? they asked about the a.p. report and did not deny the accuracy about it saying that the detention program ended over 18 months ago and the so-called black sites and enhanced interrogation methods are a thing of the past. the ci a s focus is exactly where it should be, on operations to protect this country today and in the future. that is the ci a s contention.