Revelations of harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA fuels growing concern among troops and their families that they will be targeted by terrorists.

Already, U.S. troops in Europe have been told not to wear their uniforms off base. Separately, the FBI has warned troops to delete any information connecting them to the military from their social media accounts to avoid being targeted by the Islamic State.

Now that Congress has released a report detailing alleged incidents of torture by CIA interrogators, some stateside troops are concerned that an attack against service members is more likely, said Yinon Weiss, founder of Rally Point, an online military community.

In October, two Canadian service members were killed within a week in separate terrorist attacks — the type of "lone wolf" attacks that U.S. troops fear the CIA report will prompt, Weiss told Military Times in an interview.

"There is a 'lone wolf' risk in the United States ... there are people who are sleeper cells, either by foreign influence or just by their own self radicalization," Weiss said. "There is always something that triggers their action. This is the kind of information that could trigger that lone wolf operator to step up and actually conduct an attack."

As a result, some stateside troops have said they are avoiding wearing their uniforms in public, Weiss noted.

"To think that somebody has to not wear a military uniform inside the United States is very disappointing and, I think, is very much an unfortunate sign of the threat and the time we live in," he said.

In a recent non-scientific survey, several Rally Point members said they feel that publicizing the report's findings will make it more likely that U.S. deployed to the Middle East will be tortured if they are captured.

"Being in the Middle East as a military member and civilian, this is not a good situation," one person responded. "This will enhance the danger significantly more, making targets of not only Americans but all westerners alike. All this report did was make a volatile situation even worse."

But retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey argues that is important for the U.S. to release its findings on alleged abuses by the CIA in order to let the world know that it is no longer using such techniques.

"Now, will there be any risk to our troops? Of course, but it'll just be engineered by people that wish us ill anyway," McCaffrey told Military Times.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., set to take over as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in January, has argued that while making the report public may spark outrage in the Muslim world, none of the revelations of alleged abuse should come as a shock to the world.

"Terrorists might use the report's re-identification of the practices as an excuse to attack Americans, but they hardly need an excuse for that," McCain said Tuesday in a speech on the Senate floor. "That has been their life's calling for a while now."

Army Reserve Capt. Michael Krogh agrees with McCain's comments and he does not believe that releasing the report's findings adds fuel to the fire.

"I was happy to see the report released," Krogh said in an email. "Any information that can be given to Americans, even information that doesn't flatter us as a nation, is empowering. It is what separates us from those who wish to do us harm. We are able to be critical of our own actions and to learn from them. They do not learn from their actions because there is nothing to learn from when people resort to the barbarity that they do."

But retired Air Force Master Sgt. Curtis Borders wonders why it was necessary to release the report given the incidents of alleged torture happened years ago. He also feels that Americans do not need to know everything that their government does to prevent a terrorist attack.

Borders told Military Times that the argument that the report will not create new terrorists "asinine" because would-be terrorists look for pre-texts to launch attacks, and that's just what this report gives them.

"These people look for excuses to come after us and anything that gives them a little bit of ammunition just justifies their cause," Borders said. "We kind of just feed into what they want by giving them information."

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