--- title: Ex-CIA Chief: Dianne Feinstein Too 'Emotional' On Interrogations description: Michael Hayden questions the objectivity of a report which the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to make public this week, that reportedly accuses the CIA of inflating the effectiveness of 'enhanced' interrogation practices canonical: https://time.com/51063/hayden-feinstein-emotional-senate-cia/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-06T18:08:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:09:35.614Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ex-CIA Chief: Dianne Feinstein Too 'Emotional' On Interrogations og:description: Michael Hayden questions the objectivity of a report which the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to make public this week, that reportedly accuses the CIA of inflating the effectiveness of 'enhanced' interrogation practices og:url: https://time.com/51063/hayden-feinstein-emotional-senate-cia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc072d33c0246d3c2/6986893b169ab03bc7278a55/cia-michael-hayden.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: CIA Director General Michael Hayden speaks during his military retirement ceremony, on June 20, 2008 at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ex-CIA Chief: Dianne Feinstein Too 'Emotional' On Interrogations twitter:description: Michael Hayden questions the objectivity of a report which the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to make public this week, that reportedly accuses the CIA of inflating the effectiveness of 'enhanced' interrogation practices twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc072d33c0246d3c2/6986893b169ab03bc7278a55/cia-michael-hayden.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ex-CIA Chief: Feinstein Too 'Emotional' On Interrogations Report by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Apr 6, 2014 6:08 PM UTC  CIA Director General Michael Hayden speaks during his military retirement ceremony, on June 20, 2008 at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. CIA Director General Michael Hayden speaks during his military retirement ceremony, on June 20, 2008 at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C.William B. Plowman—AP by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Apr 6, 2014 6:08 PM UTC Michael Hayden, the former CIA and National Security Agency director, told _Fox News Sunday_ he doubts the objectivity of a Senate report detailing CIA interrogation tactics. The motivations of Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for compiling the report on the CIA’s interrogation and detention practices “may show deep, emotional feeling on the part of the senator,” he said, “but I don’t think it leads you to an objective report.” The Senate Intelligence Committee voted on Thursday to declassify key elements of its report this week, which reportedly concludes that the CIA inflated the effectiveness of its “enhanced” interrogation practices, misleading the Justice Department, Congress and the public. The report was at the center of a rift between the CIA and Senate investigators, after Feinstein accused the agency of spying on Senate computers used to compile the investigation. 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