In March 8, 2008, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) said: “the Bush Administration’s approach [to counterterrorism] was not only unnecessary, it was also undermining the security that it claimed to safeguard. ‘The CIA’s program damages our national security by weakening our legal and moral authority, and by providing al Qaeda and other terrorist groups a recruiting and motivational tool,’ he said.”
– Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 330