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kpete

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Thu Apr 3, 2014, 09:25 PM Apr 2014

Vote To Declassify CIA's Befouled Bedsheets: Rubio, Risch & Coats Voted Against-Coburn Voted Present

The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to make public a long-awaited report that concludes that the CIA’s use of brutal interrogation measures did not produce valuable intelligence and that the agency repeatedly misled government officials about the severity and success of the program.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senate-votes-to-release-cia-interrogation-report/2014/04/03/8ebc1b70-bb60-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html?hpid=z3



Interesting note from Politico:
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/senate-intelligence-cia-report-105356.html?hp=t1

Panel staffers said they were not authorized to release a breakdown of the vote on seeking declassification, though POLITICO confirmed that GOP Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Jim Risch of Idaho and Dan Coats of Indiana voted against declassification. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) voted present.


When you can’t get Tom Coburn to deliver a stirring defence of “My Agency, right or wrong” (with an optional chorus of ‘Let the Eagle Soar’) I think it is fair to assume that the CIA has thoroughly befouled its bedsheets.


more:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/04/03/open-thread-its-another-start/
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