Secretary of State John Kerry 's call to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein last Friday surfaced administration tensions over the torture report detailing Bush-era CIA interrogation tactics . Behind the scenes , the CIA and State Department had been fighting to not publish the report , while the Justice Department and the White House had been pushing for the opposite in hopes of getting it done and over with . While all Obama administration officials agree the intelligence assessment that the report 's publication could arouse protests on the Arab streets , some officials said further delay does n't do anything to prevent that from happening . Additionally , the government was fighting a losing battle on withholding the report within the court system . Judges have taken a dim view of the need of the CIA to completely block the release of documents on this program , and the administration 's determination was that the agency is better off with a controlled release of documents , which began Tuesday morning with the disclosure of only the 480 page executive summary , plus a shorter Republican counter-assessment and the CIA 's own assessment . According to State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki , Kerry -- who served alongside Feinstein in the Senate for decades -- was simply reiterating concerns about the safety of Americans following the report 's release , not backing away from the administration 's support for doing so . `` He wanted to have a discussion with a former colleague ... about foreign and policy implications of the release of the report , ongoing efforts -- everything from our ongoing efforts related to ISIL , the safety of Americans being held hostage around the world , '' Psaki said Monday during her daily briefing . `` He was simply raising the fact that these are issues that are ongoing right now , and certainly , he wanted to have a discussion and make sure that they were factored into the timing , '' she added . A Democratic Senate aide , speaking on background , told CNN none of the concerns Kerry conveyed in the phone call to Feinstein were new or unknown . `` Certainly if Secretary Kerry was citing instability and chaos across the world and in the Middle East , there 's no argument on that , but that 's not going to change any time soon , '' the aide said . `` The horrible acts against Americans , whether committed by ISIL or AQAP or whoever , will continue . And while they may cite the release of the report , they 're already doing everything they can to hurt Americans . '' The aide pointed out the report has been gone over with a fine-toothed comb by the Obama administration so as to ensure `` the report does not compromise our intelligence sources and methods or compromise our national security . '' `` We 've been preparing our foreign partners for any possible response , '' the aide said . `` And there have been efforts going on for multiple days to prepare stations and embassies and bases for any response , just as there is any time the United States takes an action that might provoke a response . '' According to an administration official , 93 % of the report is unredacted . `` There 's going to be nothing lost in this narrative , '' the official added . When asked about the phone call Monday , White House spokesman Josh Earnest declined to offer up how much the White House knew ahead of time . `` The President and the secretary share the view that the release of the report is important for that purpose , '' he said during his daily briefing . `` I will allow Secretary Kerry to explain exactly why he made the phone call . '' Former Vice President Dick Cheney pushed back on the report Monday night . It portrays the CIA as misleading the Bush White House and Justice Department , among others . `` What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation and the agency was way out of bounds and then they lied about it , '' he said in a telephone interview with The New York Times . `` I think that 's all a bunch of hooey . The program was authorized . The agency did not want to proceed without authorization , and it was also reviewed legally by the Justice Department before they undertook the program . ''
Secretary of State Dianne Feinstein call to Sen. Dianne Feinstein exposed an the United States administration rift on torture report . The State and State Department sought to withhold the report , while the DOJ and WH have pushed for publishing . The report was made public last Friday night .