Jose Rodriguez, former director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, said Democrats are being hypocritical in their condemnation of "enhanced interrogation techniques" since his agency informed them of the techniques throughout their use.
Rodriguez, appearing Tuesday on Fox News Channel's
"Hannity," said the House and Senate Intelligence Committees were briefed about 40 times from 2002 to 2009.
"We briefed Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi and [Jay] Rockefeller and many others," Rodriguez said.
Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee until Republicans take over the Senate in January, released her panel's report on what it described as torture of terror suspects by the CIA on Tuesday. Most Republicans were critical of the release, saying it will endanger American lives.
Rodriguez said Democrats who are now critical of the EITs sang a different tune in the days just after the 9/11 attacks.
"At the beginning, back in 2001, I remember very clearly them telling me, 'You know, the problem that you guys have is that you are risk-averse. You need to use the authorities that we have given you to go out there and destroy this organization and to kill bin Laden," he said.
"We feel we briefed them … thoroughly, and they are hypocritical."
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