Democrats prepare to release contentious CIA torture report

On Tuesday, Senate Democrats will use some of their last hours in the Senate majority to release the much-anticipated report about the CIA's methods of extracting information from terror suspects, called "enhanced interrogation" by some and "torture" by others.

The report is 6,000 pages long, but only the 480-page executive summary will be released. It is contentious, opposed by both Republicans and former CIA officials who argue that it not only is false, but that it will bring harm to American personnel abroad.

Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-California, said she will release the report Tuesday morning around 11 a.m., and will not comment until that time.

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CBS News' Bob Orr and former CIA Director Michael Hayden discuss the controversy surrounding the forthcoming report from the Senate Intelligence ...

Former CIA director Michael Hayden said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday that the report would damage CIA morale by making the workforce "feel as if it has been tried and convicted in absentia since the senate Democrats and their staff didn't talk to anyone actively involved in the program." He also said the information would motivate people to attack Americans and American facilities overseas, and making U.S. allies wary about cooperating with America in the future.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, warned of "violence and deaths" abroad in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" and called the report's release "a terrible idea.

The concern for U.S. personnel abroad prompted Secretary of State John Kerry to call Feinstein to discuss "the impact that the release" of the report would have on factors ranging from U.S. efforts to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to the safety of American hostages around the world, State Department Jen Psaki told reporters Monday.

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White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the Senate Intelligence committee will release its controversial report on the CIA's use of torture...

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