Why would Sen Burr recall all copies of the 'torture report"??
Seems only limited copies were distributed to a few agencies---
Senate recall of ‘torture report’ won’t reach DOJ copy, yet
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/02/senate-torture-report-recall-justice-department-239077
By Seung Min Kim
06/02/2017 05:40 PM EDT
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Friday that she has confirmed the CIA, its inspector general and the director of national intelligence have returned their copies of the torture report to the Senate. | Getty
Senate recall of ‘torture report’ won’t reach DOJ copy, yet
By Seung Min Kim
06/02/2017 05:40 PM EDT
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But Burr, when he took over as Intelligence Committee chairman in 2015, asked the Obama administration to return all executive branch copies to the Senate. The issue has been tied up in the courts, with the American Civil Liberties Union suing to make the report public. But the Supreme Court declined to hear its case in April.
“No senator — chairman or not — has the authority to erase history,” Feinstein said. “I believe that is the intent of the chairman in this case.”
Still, multiple judges have ordered the report be preserved in court records and former President Barack Obama included another copy as a part of his White House paperwork with the National Archives, which could be released as early as 2029.
The ACLU noted Friday that Courtney Simmons Elwood, President Donald Trump's nominee to be CIA general counsel, promised during her confirmation hearing to read the full report, but the agency was one of the handful that had returned its copy. Her confirmation vote is scheduled for Tuesday.
“The report contains difficult facts to face, but they must be aired,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who as an Intelligence Committee member helped prepare the report. “Purging history of unpleasant facts is not the American way; Putin and his Soviet forebears would approve, but we should not.”
Sen. Dianne Fei0nstein (D-Calif.) said Friday that she has confirmed the CIA, its inspector general and the director of national intelligence have returned their copies of the torture report to the Senate. | Getty
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(adjective-modified noun) (first mentioned in George Orwell's 1949 novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
The place where Sen. Richard Burr intends to place the "torture report" so that the new and improved version, which proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that torture, world famine, poverty, cholera, mange, dropsy, the clap, hard pad, athlete's head, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, the Rape of Nanking, the Pearl Harbor Attacks, the Loss of the Alamo, the Sinking of the Maine, Burr's uncle killing Alexander Hamilton, Waterloo, Guernica, the Forty-Seven Ronin, the Fall of Rome, the Bay of Pigs, Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and Richard Burr getting a ticket for a burned-out taillight last Tuesday night are all Obama's fault, can be issued without anyone objecting.
