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• Case Number: F-2014-00434
• Publication Date: December 10, 2014

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'Mark Mazzetti';
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Mark -
We only got clearance for the 3 wire services. We were told that is the
standard practice for pool reporting. It is too late to get Security
concurrence to add another (and even then it would be unlikely). Sorry.
But good to hear from you!!! You guys have been writing up a storm about CIA
without bothering to contact us. Which wouldn't be bad if you hadn't
fundamentally misunderstood our position by misreading our statements.
This paragraph was particularly dumb:
"The contrary pressures on the agency were evident in two news releases its
public affairs office issued on Tuesday. The first struck a cautious tone,
acknowledging "serious mistakes" by the agency while saying the Senate report's
findings went too far. The second was more forthright, declaring bluntly: "Was
the detention program effective? Yes."
We told you and every other reporter that would listen that CIA's position
would be:
1) They are not coming back
2) We acknowledge many wrongs
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3) The program produced valuable intelligence that was the bedrock of
our understanding of AQ, but we will not say EITs were the reason because that
is unknowable
4) We were accurate in the vast majority of cases cited by SSCI in
representing the value of that intelligence
Those are not contradictory. Those are the facts.
When you guys are ready to actually understand the 20 case studies and what
SSCI got wrong let us know. I'm not sure what the single minor mistake they
had to correct after June 2013, but there are in fact many more than that and
we'd be happy to walk you through them.
See you tomorrow!
CIA Spokesperson
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 8:04 PM
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Any chance we can still get a photographer cleared to cover Brennan speech
tomorrow?
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Thanks
Mark
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On Dec 10, 2014, at 5:54 PM,
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Thanks Mark - probably not much we will say on Udall, but may be able to help.
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Mazzetti, Mark
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 5:41 PM
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Sorry! Meant to send that to Peter Baker, who is going to reach out because
he is writing about Udall and wanted to get comment.
Mark
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