The chairman of the House intelligence committee said on Sunday the release of a Senate report examining the use of torture by the CIA a decade ago will cause violence and deaths abroad.

Representative Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, is regularly briefed on intelligence analyses. He told CNN that the US intelligence community had assessed that the release of the report would be used by extremists to incite violence.

The Senate intelligence committee is poised to release the first public accounting of the CIA’s use of torture on al-Qaida detainees held in secret facilities in Europe and Asia in the years after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. It will come in the form of a 480-page executive summary of the 6,200-page report by Democrats on the committee, who spent six years reviewing millions of secret CIA documents.

On Friday, secretary of state John Kerry urged the senator in charge of the report to consider the timing of its release.

He called California Senator Dianne Feinstein to discuss the broader implications of publicly releasing a declassified summary of her committee’s report “because a lot is going on in the world, and he wanted to make sure that foreign policy implications were being appropriately factored into timing,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Friday.

These factors to consider “include our ongoing efforts against [Islamic State militants] and the safety of Americans being held hostage around the world,” Psaki said.



Feinstein has not publicly responded.

According to many US officials who have read it, the document includes disturbing new details about the CIA’s use of such techniques as sleep deprivation, confinement in small spaces, humiliation and the simulated drowning process known as waterboarding. President Barack Obama has acknowledged: “We tortured some folks.”

Feinstein, in remarks on the Senate floor in March, said the CIA in briefings to Congress had fundamentally mischaracterized the nature of the interrogations, which she called “chilling,” ‘’brutal” and “un-American”.



“The interrogations and the conditions of confinement at the CIA detention sites were far different and far more harsh than the way the CIA had described them to us,” Feinstein said.

The expected release of the report has raised concerns about potential backlash to Americans and US interests around the world.

Spokeswoman Marie Harf said the State Department has “directed all of our posts overseas to review their security posture in light of … a release of this report, to ensure that our personnel, our facilities and our interests are prepared for the range of reactions that might occur.”

A senior defense official said the Pentagon will be warning military combatant commanders overseas that the torture report will be coming out and that they should assess their security situation. The official said that commanders are being told to take any steps they believe are appropriate to assure the safety of their personnel in case the report triggers violence.

The main focus of the effort is in the Middle East and Europe, said the official, who was not authorized to discuss the impending memo publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.