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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenate Asks C.I.A. to Share Its Report on Interrogations.
WASHINGTON The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the C.I.A. for an internal study done by the agency that lawmakers believe is broadly critical of the C.I.A.s detention and interrogation program but was withheld from congressional oversight committees.
The committees request comes in the midst of a yearlong battle with the C.I.A. over the release of the panels own exhaustive report about the program, one of the most controversial policies of the post-Sept. 11 era.
The Senate report, totaling more than 6,000 pages, was completed last December but has yet to be declassified. According to people who have read the study, it is unsparing in its criticism of the now-defunct interrogation program and presents a chronicle of C.I.A. officials repeatedly misleading the White House, Congress and the public about the value of brutal methods that, in the end, produced little valuable intelligence.
Senator Mark Udall, Democrat of Colorado, disclosed the existence of the internal C.I.A. report during an Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday. He said he believed it was begun several years ago and is consistent with the Intelligences Committees report although it conflicts with the official C.I.A. response to the committees report.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/us/politics/senators-ask-to-see-internal-cia-review-of-interrogation-program.html?pagewanted=print
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Ask? They are the fucking oversight committee! The CIA has no right to refuse them. Hold the Director in contempt until they comply.
kentuck
(111,102 posts)They didn't know??
noise
(2,392 posts)that justifies Snowden's conduct.
We don't even know why the CIA resorted to a torture program all these years later. It's all so secret. This back and forth between the CIA, the White House and the Congress is absurd.