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(45,788 posts) Thu Apr 3, 2014, 07:02 PM Apr 2014

Senate Panel Votes to Declassify Report on CIA Interrogations (Torture)

Source: Reuters

Senate panel votes to declassify report on CIA interrogations

WASHINGTON | Thu Apr 3, 2014 6:51pm EDT

By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted on Thursday to declassify its long-awaited report on the CIA's use of brutal interrogation methods that critics say amount to torture.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat who chairs the committee, said the vote was 11-3 to declassify what she called the "shocking" results of investigating the Central Intelligence Agency practices under Republican President George W. Bush.

The vote to lift the blackout on the summary and recommendations of the 6,200-page report follows an unprecedented clash by Feinstein with the CIA, and would give the world its first official look at its regimen of interrogation and detentions in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

"The report exposes brutality that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation. It chronicles a stain on our history that must never be allowed to happen again. This is not what Americans do," Feinstein told reporters after the committee voted during a classified meeting.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA321UC20140403

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Senate Panel Votes to Declassify Report on CIA Interrogations (Torture) (Original Post) Hissyspit Apr 2014 OP

This is a good thing...i'm surprised that we are doing this... movonne Apr 2014 #1

Sad billhicks76 Apr 2014 #2

Everyone agrees that torture must be prosecuted:-) ...Right? grahamhgreen Apr 2014 #3

CIA torture report to remain largely secret despite declassification vote jakeXT Apr 2014 #4

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OnyxCollie Apr 2014 #5

movonne

(9,623 posts)

1. This is a good thing...i'm surprised that we are doing this...

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 07:06 PM

Apr 2014

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)

2. Sad

Reply to movonne (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 08:39 PM

Apr 2014

It's a sad sad world where we have to feel surprised not that torture was our policy but that we are even allowed to talk about a report on it. People need to be held accountable as they still reside in positions of influence and power.

grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts)

3. Everyone agrees that torture must be prosecuted:-) ...Right?

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 08:41 PM

Apr 2014

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

4. CIA torture report to remain largely secret despite declassification vote

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 08:49 PM

Apr 2014

Or more precisely, it will vote to make a slice public. And the CIA will have a significant degree of influence over how large and how public that slice will be.

The committee is not going to release the 6,300-page report. Its chairwoman, Dianne Feinstein of California, said on the Senate floor three weeks ago that only the “findings, conclusions and the executive summary of the report” were the subject of the committee’s declassification efforts. The vast majority of the Senate report – effectively, an alternative post-9/11 history detailing of years’ worth of CIA torture and cover-up – will remain shielded from public view.

“The executive summary will tell us much more than we know right now about the CIA program but much less than the full report,” Katherine Hawkins, a former investigator with the Constitution Project’s own private inquiry on counterterrorism detentions.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/cia-torture-report-senate-vote-declassify-review

OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts)

5. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Reply to jakeXT (Reply #4)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 09:24 PM

Apr 2014

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