Senator Dianne Feinstein unleashed a torrent of tweets today as CIA Director John Brennan spoke on live nationwide television about the torture techniques described in the Select Intelligence Committee report released on Tuesday.
With a total of 27 tweets, Feinstein averaged one tweet every 2 minutes and 12 seconds for the hour-long session.
The report has had bipartisan support from the start. 14-1 vote initiated, 9-6 approved (w/ Senator Snowe)
— SenDianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) December 11, 2014
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While Brennan's speech and question/answer session with the press was to be the news event of the day, Feinstein may have upstaged him with a relentless series of tweets refuting his remarks.
CIA says "unknowable" if we could have gotten the intelother ways. Study shows it IS knowable: CIA had info before torture. #ReadTheReport
— SenDianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) December 11, 2014
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Brava Senator Dianne Feinstein!
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1:18 PM PT: EU partners in the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee (led by Claude Moraes) get the ball rolling for action on their side of the pond.
#CIA #TortureReport: Parliament will debate use of #torture by CIA and role of EU member states on Wednesday at 3pm: http://t.co/...
— LIBE Committee Press (@EP_Justice)
December 11, 2014