CIA vs. FSB

      The US Senate Intelligence Committee released its lengthy(6700 pages) report yesterday that tells a story about CIA interrogation techniques used in course of questioning of suspects believed to be responsible for the bombings of the World Trade Center in 2001.
     It is being attacked for being a one -sided political document used and timed to weaken support for Republican Party initiatives that will begin in January when the party will control both houses of Congress.  Chair person, Diane Feinstein(D., CA) explained that this report focused on methods and results, drawing attention to the paltry intelligence received for the "torture" techniques utilized in an attempt to gain timely, authentic information.   Senator John McCain(R.,AZ), himself a victim of torture during his 7 years as a POW in Hanoi, called the efforts described as obvious torture.  He underscored the report as posing a tool to insurgents across the Middle East.
     Who, you might ask, read this report?   Probably very few individuals who have commented.  Anybody with a brain knows that it takes time to read and absorb information.   So, we must wait until the contents are dissected by back office types who will mine the material for plums that can: 1) be useful for their agenda, 2)for errors of fact, 3) and any obvious violations of law.
     The media and all its outlets are having fun with this, despite that many portions of the report have been known for sometime.  Director of the CIA, John Brennan, will speak at 10:30am(PST) today, responding to the report in his official capacity as director.   Chris Anders, senior legal counsel of ACLU, reports that 500 pages of the report list innumerable crimes, violations of Federal law, International laws, and humanitarian laws of conduct when dealing with incarcerated suspects.
    How would the FSB handle this scrutiny?   We know; we just have to look at the recent reports from Muscova:  have the State takeover all media outlets.  End of problem because speaking out against the state becomes a violation of law!  What a country that Russyia!