Senate torture report to be kept from public for 12 years after Obama decision

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Barack Obama has agreed to preserve the Senate’s landmark investigation into the CIA’s use of torture after 9/11, but his decision ensures that the document remains out of public view for at least 12 years and probably longer.

Obama’s decision, revealed in a letter from White House counsel W Neil Eggleston, prevents Republican Richard Burr, the Senate intelligence committee chairman who has been highly critical of the investigation, from destroying existing classified copies of the December 2014 report.

Daniel Jones, a former committee staffer who led the torture inquiry, criticized the preservation as inadequate.

“The bar for positive White House action on this is incredibly low. Preserving the full 6,700-page report under the Presidential Records Act only ensures the report will not be destroyed,” Jones said. “It does little else.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/12/obama-senate-cia-torture-report-september-11-classified

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Spencer Ackerman in New York
Monday 12 December 2016 22.34 GMT

[Solly Mack]

1. ...

[Plucketeer]

2. Our FABULOUS

public servants.

[Va Lefty]

3. That sucks!!

Will probably never see the light of day

[jalan48]

4. I guess we know who's really running the show.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. How the fuck do they get away with this bullshit? And why do we put up with it?

[AngryAmish]

6. Well then, the recent CIA activities have happened for a reason.

One hand washes the other. The CIA was bad under Bush for torture, but they have redeemed themselves recently and thus deserve a de facto pardon.

Let's hear it for the CIA!

[stillcool]

7. if ever there was a time...

this is it. As brutal as the consequences might be, further revealing what this country is all about is necessary.

[Rex]

8. Of course.