Senator Ron Wyden Blasts CIA For Censoring Torture Report

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

By KEN DILANIAN
Posted: 10/22/2014 9:11 pm EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Ron Wyden says the CIA is trying to blunt the impact of an upcoming Senate report examining the harsh treatment of al-Qaida detainees by insisting on censoring the pseudonyms used for agency officers mentioned in the document.

"The intelligence leadership doing everything they can to bury the facts," said Wyden, D-Ore., a Senate Intelligence Committee member who has been a frequent critic of the spy agency.

The Senate, the CIA and the White House are negotiating over what should be blacked out for national security reasons in the 600-page summary of the report that is set for public release sometime after the November elections.

President Barack Obama and other senior officials have said the CIA's use of waterboarding, stress positions, sleep deprivation and other harsh techniques on some detainees constituted torture. Many current and former CIA officers dispute that.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/ron-wyden-torture-report_n_6032058.html

[bigwillq]

1. Good for Sen. Wyden.

K and R

[grasswire]

2. that's my senator! nt

[valerief]

3. K&R

[Vattel]

4. The sheer stupidity of what the CIA did almost overshadows how evil it was.

Our use of torture has been used as an Al Qaeda recruitment tool. It has also undermined the sort of trust necessary to get enemy combatants to surrender to our troops. (The good treatment we gave Iraqi POWs in the first gulf war made it easy to get them to surrender in droves. Now our enemies will worry that they will not be treated well and so they will be less likely to surrender.) All of that even though traditional interrogation methods are at least as effective as torture.

At least Obama is willing to call it torture. The CIA won't call it torture and want to portray it as legal and justified. And they even spied on Senators in an attempt to cover up these crimes. There needs to be some housecleaning in the CIA over there. Too bad Obama doesn't have the guts to do battle with the CIA leadership.

[Enthusiast]

8. +1

[cstanleytech]

5. Hardly surprising that the CIA or the government would try to hush up of the torture that took place

under the Bush administration as they can.
I mean historically the US has a long history of covering things up, not that its unique to th US though as just about every country has does that when they get caught doing something they know that they shouldnt be doing at all.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[OnyxCollie]

7. K&R. nt

[Enthusiast]

9. K&R! Ron Wyden is absolutely correct.

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[Eric J in MN]

10. Instead of getting the real names of torturers...

...we're debating whether we should get their pseudonyms.