The Senate Report on CIA Interrogations You May Never See

[unhappycamper]

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The Senate Report on CIA Interrogations You May Never See
by Cora Currier
ProPublica, Dec. 7, 2012, 4:02 p.m.

A Senate committee is close to putting the final stamp on a massive report on the CIA’s detention, interrogation and rendition of terror suspects. Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who heads the Select Committee on Intelligence, called the roughly 6,000-page report “the most definitive review of this CIA program to be conducted.”

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The committee first needs to vote to endorse the report. There will be a vote next week.

Republicans, who are a minority on the committee, have been boycotting the investigation since the summer of 2009. They pulled back their cooperation after the Justice Department began a separate investigation into the CIA interrogations. Republicans have criticized that inquiry, arguing that the interrogations had been authorized by President George W. Bush’s Justice Department. (In August, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the investigation was being closed without bringing any criminal charges.)

Even if the report is approved next week, it won’t be made public then, if at all. Decisions on declassification will come at “a later time,” Feinstein said.



unhappycamper comment: Want to read what the CIA has gotten right since it's inception in 1947? I suggest you read "Legacy of Ashes" by Tim Weiner.

[Buzz Clik]

1. It's kinda the nature of a covert organization...

... to be covert.

It's great that Feinstein's committee reviewed them so thoroughly.

[Octafish]

2. Torture is un-American.

So is secret government.

CIA, for all its daring-do, was founded to gather info for the president. It has morphed into a global gestapo.

What President Truman wrote:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6028413

[hootinholler]

3. I think it should be split into 2 competing agencies

Part of the job of each is to keep an eye on the others activities, complete with enforcement powers. Kind of like if thing 1 is up to no good thing 2 can bust it. If thing 1 reports activity to the president that thing 2 has done without his knowledge, then corrective action can be taken. Etc., etc. and so forth.



I don't know how else to fix it. We do need intelligence as a practical matter. But we don't need people held smeared in their own feces and worse.

[Solly Mack]

4. I dunno, Octafish.

About it being un-American. America did it. Americans did it. America & Americans tried to cover it up or excuse it away. America & Americans got away with it.