Former CIA Director Michael Hayden as well as some top political voices are issuing blistering responses to the Senate Intelligence Committee 's report on torture . Hayden , whose tenure over the agency was skewered in the report , fired back at the findings , growing emotional in an interview and saying he was taken out of context . `` I think the conclusions they drew were analytically offensive and almost street-like in their simplistic language and conclusions , '' he told Politico Magazine . The new report says the CIA misled the public on its enhanced interrogation program for post-9/11 detainees during the George W. Bush era . It details brutal scenes of torture , harsher than what the CIA had disclosed in the past . Sen. Dianne Feinstein , who steered the Senate investigation , blasted Hayden in her Senate floor speech Tuesday for providing deceptive testimony about the program to the committee when he met with them in 2007 . Top takeaways from the CIA torture report . Feinstein said that Hayden painted a `` starkly '' different picture of certain interrogations in a hearing than what committee staff members learned about those interrogations from cables . `` ( The cables ) described brutal , around-the-clock interrogations ... in which multiple coercive techniques were used in combination and with substantial repetition , '' Feinstein said on the floor . `` It was an ugly , visceral description . '' Hayden , who ran the CIA from 2006 to 2009 , said that 's simply `` untrue . '' To back up his point , he noted that the Obama administration , which investigated CIA-detainee interrogations , did n't prosecute anyone . `` You ca n't have all this supposed documentary evidence saying the agency mistreated these prisoners and then Barack Obama 's and Eric Holder 's Department of Justice saying no , you 've got bupkus here , '' Hayden said . Hayden insisted he was treated unfairly and disproportionately in the report , stressing that he became CIA director late in the game . `` Everything here happened before I got there [ to the CIA ] , and I 'm the one she [ Sen. Feinstein ] condemns on the floor of the Senate ? Gee , how 'd that happen ? '' he said . CIA report 's most shocking passages . `` I 'm the dumb son of a b -- -- who went down and tried to lay out this program in great detail to them , '' he continued . `` I 'm mentioned twice as much in there as [ former CIA Director ] George Tenet â€ ” but George and [ former CIA Director ] Porter Goss had 97 detainees during their tenure , while I had two . '' He said statements he made about the program 's later days -- when the interrogation system was better regulated and more finely tuned -- were applied to the earlier days of the program when he was n't in charge . `` It misrepresents what I said , '' he said . Hagel on torture report release : 'We want to be prepared ' `` I would never lie to the committee , '' he also said in the interview . `` I did not lie . '' Former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska , who previously served on the intelligence committee , argued that his former colleagues were part of a partisan effort . Democrats , he wrote in an op-ed for USA Today , `` started out with the premise that the CIA was guilty and then worked to prove it . '' He hammered the committee for relying on documents rather than interviews during the investigation and said the `` most significant missed opportunity '' was the fact that the report included no recommendations . `` No one would claim the program was perfect or without its problems . But equally , no one with real experience would claim it was the completely ineffective and superfluous effort this report alleges . '' Republicans on the Senate committee also defended the CIA , releasing a rebuttal Tuesday that questioned the methodology of the Senate five-year-long probe . Their statement said the report created the `` false impression that the CIA was actively misleading policy makers and impeding the counterterrorism efforts of other federal government agencies during the Program 's operation . '' Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-South Carolina , said he understands why torture was used on detainees and argued that American officers are n't the bad guys . `` At the end of the day , I 'm trying to distinguish ourselves from our enemies , '' he said Tuesday on Fox News . `` They crucify people , they rape women , they sell them into slavery , they will kill people 's children before their eyes . '' The techniques in question that were analyzed in the report were used to prevent another 9/11 , Graham said . `` When you roll up some of these guys , you 're very anxious to get out of them whatever you can to prevent the next attack , '' he continued . `` I understand why people did this . ''
Former CIA chief Michael Hayden is `` upset '' about the report 's methodology . Bob Kerrey . Michael Hayden , a Democratic , blasts the Republicans -led probe as `` partisan '' Democrat on the committee say the report gives a `` false impression ''