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[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

Senate under pressure to release mammoth report on CIA interrogation

Republican senators could move to keep under wraps a 6,000-page report detailing CIA methods during 'war on terror'

Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 December 2012 13.45 EST

A prominent Senate select committee is coming under pressure to release the 6,000-page report of its investigation into controversial interrogation techniques adopted by the CIA during the so-called "war on terror".

The Senate select committee on intelligence was expected to vote on Thursday to approve the report, the result of a mammoth three-year investigation into CIA methods that have been widely denounced as a form of torture. Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic head of the committee, has called the inquiry the "most definitive review of this CIA programme to be conducted".

The Senate is expected to approve the report, given the Democratic control of the committee. However, lack of co-operation from the Republican members of the panel could prevent the document ever seeing the light of day.

Some of the top retired military leaders in the US have appealed to the committee to adopt the report and to publish it with as few redactions as possible. A joint letter from 26 of them – including retired marine generals Joseph Hoar, former commander-in-chief of United States Central Command, and Charles Krulak, former commandant of the marine corps – was sent to the committee on Wednesday protesting the Bush administration's use of torture.


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