Obama Will Preserve Senate Torture Report in His Presidential Library
Obama Will Preserve Senate Torture Report in His Presidential Library
Alex Emmons
December 12 2016, 5:27 p.m.
THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES 6,700-page history of the CIA torture program will be kept among Barack Obamas presidential papers safe from the Republicans on the committee who have attempted to have it destroyed.
The executive summary of the report, which was released in December 2014, contained shocking description of brutal torture tactics like waterboarding, rectal feeding, and rectal exams conducted with excessive force. Following the election of Donald Trump, Senate Democrats have urged Obama to make the full report public, fearing that it could be destroyed.
The public will still have to wait to see the report, however. In a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committees top Democrat, Dianne Feinstein, White House Counsel Neil Eggleston wrote that the President has informed the archivist that access to classified material, among other categories of information, should be restricted for the full twelve years allowed under the act.
After the report was completed, the Intelligence Committee sent copies to the White House, the CIA, the Department of Justice, and several other federal agencies, hoping to dissuade the agencies from practicing or authorizing torture in the future....