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Photos: See Key Moments in Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Political Career


At the end of 2007, The New York Times reported that the Central Intelligence Agency had secretly destroyed audiotapes of interrogations conducted in 2002 on two Al Qaeda agents it was holding.

The tapes are said to show agency agents imposing terror suspects using rigorous interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding. Agency officials said the tapes were destroyed because they could pose a danger to undercover officers, their intelligence value was exhausted, and they could put the agency in legal jeopardy.

The Senate Intelligence Committee, of which Senator Feinstein is a member, began investigating. The report, which emerged more than a year later, described the extensive torture of Abu Zubaydah, whom the CIA suspected was a high-ranking member of Al Qaeda, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, another prisoner. .

At the time the report was released in early 2009, Sen. Feinstein, then 75, chair of the committee, called for a full investigation into the CIA’s detention and interrogation programs. . Project – and of the senator fighting the Obama administration to reveal what committee staff discovered to the public about the program’s brutality, inefficiency and needless secrecy – which had taken more than 5 years.

Based on millions of CIA documents, the full 6,700-page “torture report,” as it is known, remains secret. But 500 pages executive summary, enacted in 2014 despite a relentless CIA campaign to sabotage it, yielded a sweeping indictment agency and its treatment of terrorist suspects in the years following the September 11 attacks. So epic is the battle to inform Americans that a movies were made about it in 2019, with Annette Bening playing Senator Feinstein.

Over the decades, Senator Feinstein’s accomplishments have ranged from federal coordination of Amber Alerts, the national child abduction warning system, to the California Desert Protection Act, which includes preserves more than 7 million desert acres. But she has called the torture report the most important work of her career.

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