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    Intelligence agency reviews spy memoir redaction policy

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Would want to write a book about your life go right ahead no one's gonna stop you but.

It's a different set of rules for folks who worked in US intelligence.

Anything they write has to go through the sensors.

State secrets all that but America's spy agencies reportedly looking into whether sensors are redacted information for political reasons.

Catherine Herridge is in Washington tonight -- and it's my understanding a lot of this has to do waterboarding.

Well let's -- a former FBI agent on -- who find who wrote the book black -- says.

-- -- -- the clearance process at the FBI but because his book does not support claims that waterboarding worked it was unexpectedly sent to the CIA for review.

Where the agency got at the big black pen.

That -- information that you can find on the CIA that golf.

They redacted information that has been declassified by the CI AIG they've redacted information that's part of the 9/11 commission report.

-- fund says his book was heavily scrutinized because the CIA agent like the message the water boarding was torture and failed.

To -- thinks this review of the CI -- -- process.

Is long overdue -- course waterboarding is torture and I'm curious where this pressures coming from of the CIA review.

Well the former head of the CIA's clandestine service Jose Rodriguez says the investigation of the CIA publication review board is politically driven.

He says some members of congress don't want books like he is called hard measures out there.

Because they make the case that waterboarding by the CIA got valuable intelligence and saved American lives timing may be everything here.

There's an upcoming congressional report that investigates whether waterboarding of these high value detainees including the architect of 9/11 college sheik Mohammed.

Was worth it.

They've been working for years.

Maybe -- that is supposed to be released this summer.

And of their conclusions.

Are very different from mine.

And you know maybe the truth hurts maybe they can't -- the truth.

We could not get more specifics on the congressional report or is possible release -- -- up effort here to watch have a great weekend.

You can't see you later well if you want as I mentioned -- the.

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