CIA torture needed, none of our business

CIA torture needed, none of our business

The CIA detainees' torture report should never have been released. These Islamic religious zealots are at war with America and the western peoples and they want us dead. After 9/11 with thousands of innocent people dead, we had to get information from the combatants we captured to be able to annihilate the enemy.

What Dianne Feinstein did by releasing this report is putting CIA agents around the world in danger. She's unhappy with the CIA "snooping" on her so she released this report before the new Senate gets sworn in next January. This is very unpatriotic and dangerous; it may also stop our allies from helping us find the enemy.

The Obama administration now uses drones to just kill these zealots and never capture any to get important information from the combatants. That makes no sense and in that case many innocents become "collateral damage" and that seems to be just find with this administration.

That's no way to run a war. Information is so important. Torture is many times an important tool and we don't have to know what goes on behind the scenes to get information. I don't think it's any of our business.

They, the CIA, are keeping Americans safe and that's a good thing. They are trying to deny that torture works to get information. Well, it does work and this report is "lying" to us about the fact of denial. They didn't interview anyone for this report. All they did was read documents and make their report from that process. That doesn't make any sense either. What a poor way to conduct an investigation.

We need to keep Americans safe and releasing this report may not do that any more. This will be a long-running war no matter what the administration says.

Judy Olsen

Elgin