Official Overseeing Biden's Daily Briefings Defended The CIA's False Intelligence About Torture

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-torture-briefing-president-biden

The man overseeing President Joe Biden's daily intelligence briefing previously advocated for the CIA’s false claims about its torture program to a powerful Senate committee, according to its former lead investigator and three others with direct knowledge of the events.

In 2013, during a dramatic standoff between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA, Morgan Muir, then a senior CIA analyst, played a pivotal role that has never before been reported. After the senate committee found that “enhanced interrogation techniques” against terror suspects were not effective, he led a series of tense meetings in which the CIA attacked those findings.

Though the committee’s politically explosive 6,700-page report on the subject was based on the CIA’s own documents, Daniel Jones, the lead author, said Muir continued to defend the value of the torture program, citing information that the CIA would later publicly admit was inaccurate.

After questions from BuzzFeed News, an intelligence agency spokesperson said Muir is no longer expected to brief Biden personally.

[erronis]

1. That's what independent journalists/reporters/investigators should do. Get the facts to the people

who make the decisions.

Very good.