{"id":186204,"date":"2014-04-04T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/04\/it-now-gets-real-for-the-torturers\/"},"modified":"2014-04-04T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T01:39:00","slug":"it-now-gets-real-for-the-torturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/04\/it-now-gets-real-for-the-torturers\/","title":{"rendered":"It Now Gets Real for the Torturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Intelligence Committee just <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2014\/04\/senate-intelligence-committee-votes\">voted to release the torture report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Senate Intelligence Committee has voted to release parts of a hotly contested, secret report that harshly criticizes CIA terror interrogations after 9\/11, and the White House said it would instruct intelligence officials to cooperate fully.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The result sets the stage for what could be the fullest public accounting of the Bush administration\u2019s record when it comes to waterboarding and other \u201cenhanced interrogation techniques.\u201d The panel voted 11-3 Thursday to order the declassification of almost 500 pages of the 6,300-page review, which concludes the harsh methods employed at CIA-run prisons overseas were excessively cruel and ineffective in producing valuable intelligence.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Even some Republicans who agree with the spy agency that the findings are inaccurate voted in favor of declassification, saying it was important for the country to move on.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe purpose of this review was to uncover the facts behind the secret program and the results, I think, were shocking,\u201d Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the committee chairwoman, said. \u201cThe report exposes brutality that stands in sharp 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.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The intelligence committee and the CIA are embroiled in a bitter dispute related to the three-year study. Senators accuse the agency of spying on their investigation and deleting files. The CIA says Senate staffers illegally accessed information. The Justice Department is reviewing competing criminal referrals.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">As a result of Thursday\u2019s vote, the CIA will start scanning the report\u2019s contents for any passages that could compromise national security. That has led to fears in the committee that a recalcitrant CIA might sanitize key elements of their investigation, and demands for President Barack Obama to ensure large parts of the report aren\u2019t blacked out.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Obama, said Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., should \u201chold onto the redaction pen himself.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The CIA&#8217;s strategy at this point is delay and obfuscate while leaking furiously to malign the report.<\/p>\n<p>If I were a Senator, I remember that if it takes too long, reading the high points of the report on the floor of the Senate is a constitutionally protected activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Intelligence Committee just voted to release the torture report: The Senate Intelligence Committee has voted to release parts of a hotly contested, secret report that harshly criticizes CIA terror interrogations after 9\/11, and the White House said it would instruct intelligence officials to cooperate fully.The result sets the stage for what could be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1102,978,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-intelligence","category-politics","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}