CIA torture report architect denounces Republican attempt to claw back copies

[inanna]

Source: The Guardian

Wednesday 21 January 2015 19.35 GMT

The architect of the Senate’s landmark inquiry into Central Intelligence Agency torture is denouncing an unusual demand from her successor to return all classified copies of the investigation.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who relinquished the chairmanship of the intelligence committee when Republicans took control of the Senate this month, said she objects to Senator Richard Burr’s request that the Obama administration return all copies of the full, 6,000-plus-page classified study.

“I strongly disagree that the administration should relinquish copies of the full committee study, which contains far more detailed records than the public executive summary,” Feinstein said in a statement late on Tuesday.

“Doing so would limit the ability to learn lessons from this sad chapter in America’s history and omit from the record two years of work, including changes made to the committee’s 2012 report following extensive discussion with the CIA.”

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/21/cia-torture-report-architect-denounces-republican-claw-back-copies

[Wellstone ruled]

1. You should have expected this to happen.

Remember who is protected if this info is buried,Cheney,Rummy,Junior,and others. And you expected something different. Same shit as Iran/Contra with some of the same politicians.

[Hekate]

2. Where did she say she "didn't expect" it? She denounced it. She strongly objected.

What is your point in criticizing Senator Feinstein? She's the one who chaired the committee and made sure the report was actually written and made public.

Is it somehow her fault that the GOP now runs the Senate and therefore a Republican now chairs her committee?

I have read a good deal of sniping against my Senator here at DU, from people who think she is not a good Democrat and should be primaried out of her seat. Please take note that SHE saw this report through. Also note that the US Congress runs on a seniority system as well as a party system, and that she is a very senior Senator. When she retires it will be a loss to California and the nation.

[grasswire]

3. Wow.

I can honestly say that I don't think I have ever seen a Democrat defend Feinstein on anything. She is pretty universally despised as a beneficiary of war privateering.

[freshwest]

5. I see this article as more of a snipe at the GOP. Remember this iconic pic?

Of course the GOP want to take back that information from Obama. Like John Conyers' report, it 'names names.'

There have been convictions from those reports and there may be some from this information.

And I agree with all the rest that you said, the blind hatred will only benefit Libertarians.

[blackspade]

4. Rethugs covering up a crime?

Who would have thought?

[Octafish]

6. Protect the BFEE

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