Chambliss Statement on the CIA Interrogation Report

Statement

U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement on the administration's declassification of the executive summary, findings and conclusions, and minority views to the committee's study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program.

"I want to be clear -- I opposed the study from the beginning. I believed then, as I do now, that vital committee and intelligence community resources would be squandered over a debate that Congress, the executive branch, and the Supreme Court have already settled years ago.

"This study is an ideologically motivated, distorted recounting of events. I encourage everyone to read the minority views and decide for themselves. These views are not an independent report -- nor are they a defense of the CIA -- rather, they provide the minority's viewpoint on the flawed committee study."

The intelligence committee will review the executive branch redactions and then release the summary, findings and conclusions, and minority views.

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