See the article by former CIA head Porter Goss. How else to read this?
In the fall of 2002, while I was chairman of the House intelligence committee, senior members of Congress were briefed on the CIA's "High Value Terrorist Program," including the development of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and what those techniques were. This was not a one-time briefing but an ongoing subject with lots of back and forth between those members and the briefers...
The chairs and the ranking minority members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, known as the Gang of Four, were briefed that the CIA was holding and interrogating high-value terrorists.
Recently, Cong. Jane Harman has been rumored to have been in contact with an Israeli agent. Marcy Wheeler wonders: Is the flap concerning Jane Harman an attempt to silence her? She notes that Goss, in a December 2007 interview, had named Harman, now Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) as having been briefed on CIA waterboarding back in 2002 and 2003. The lone person to raise a protest was Jane Harman.
In addition, Porter Goss is deeply implicated in the Bradbury torture memos and the torture tape destruction (and is one potential candidate to be the "senior agency official [who] failed to provide a full account of the CIA's detainee-treatment policy at a closed hearing of the House intelligence committee in February 2005, under questioning by California Rep. Jane Harman"). And it's quite likely that Jane Harman knows quite a bit about just how implicated he is.
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