CIA Put In Charge Of Declassifying Senate's Report That Condemns The CIA's Torture Program
from the wonder-how-that-will-turn-out dept
In our post about the Senate Intelligence Committee agreeing to declassify the executive summary and major findings of the $40 million, 6,300 page "devastating" report on how the CIA tortured people for no good reason and then lied about it, we noted that there was still a battle over who would handle the declassification process. Senator Mark Udall directly noted that the White House had a choice. It could handle the declassification efforts itself, give it to the director of national intelligence... or give it over to the CIA itself. Guess which choice the White House has gone with? Yup, you guessed it: The CIA itself gets to choose which parts of the report remain secret. Considering the CIA has spent many months attacking the report, declaring that it was misleading and full of errors, it seems rather ridiculous that the Agency itself is in charge of determining what can and can't be released from the report.
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Filed Under: cia, declassification, senate, torture
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“Drop the Microphone
Okay, we tried to be diplomatic. They had their chance.Now it's up to Wyden or Udall to take the floor of the Senate and enter the entire document into the Congressional Record.
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This shouldn't even be an option in the first place...
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Money Saving Opportunity Here
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Re: Money Saving Opportunity Here
Obviously the CIA doesn't want any of this to see the light of day, so I doubt we'll even get the official title of the actual report.
Or someone in the CIA will just open MS Paint, doodle a hand flipping off the viewer, paste that doodle in MS word and stretch it out until it fills the whole page. Then they'll black that out copy it 6,300 times.
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[Alarm] Warning: Leak detected in Trust in Governmental Transparency tank.
[Alarm] Disregard previous warning: Trust in Governmental Transparency tank is empty and has been this way for several years.
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Garbage in/Garbage out
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Seems legit.
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fox and scully are pissed off
sent intpo space , retrieved , sent back to space....retrieved again and by this time the radiation on it will mutate anyone holding it.
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declassification of torture report.
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Re: declassification of torture report.
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For the record, I'd love to see what the report on Congress' oversight during this program... Let's shoot for just $38 million spent this time. That will save millions on making that report!
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declassification of torture report.
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Declassifying the CIA Report
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Re: Declassifying the CIA Report
Stop defending the establishment and help us pull it down! You can start by refusing to play partisan games to encourage the divisions they've built to keep us too busy fighting each other to fight them.
Now go and encourage everyone you know to take an interest in third parties and prepare to vote for them in the next election. If enough people do so, things will change.
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Drop the Microphone
Now it's up to Wyden or Udall to take the floor of the Senate and enter the entire document into the Congressional Record.
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Expect the best
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Disgusting, but expected
Neither the WH or the CIA want that document to see the light of day, so of course they handed it to the CIA to 'declassify', at this point it's time for one of those politicians that had the guts to call torture torture to do what Christopher Best suggested, and read the entire thing into the public record, redacting nothing.
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Business as Usual
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