Release of CIA torture details unlikely: senior Democrat

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

The Obama administration is unlikely to release a massive report on the CIA's use of waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" widely considered torture, a top Democrat on the congressional intelligence committee said on Tuesday.

Representative Adam Schiff told reporters it was more likely, before President Barack Obama leaves office next month, that the White House might take action so the report could be released someday via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

"The most that we might expect this administration to do... is to designate it as some kind of a record that would ultimately lead to its availability through FOIA, subject to redaction," Schiff said at a breakfast meeting with reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

He said he supported "as much information being shared as possible."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cia-torture-congress-idUSKBN13V2FP

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POLITICS | Tue Dec 6, 2016 | 1:39pm EST
By Patricia Zengerle | WASHINGTON

[Javaman]

1. all about transparency, right?

: facepalm:

and the beat(ing) goes on.

[jalan48]

2. Obama will be relying on the national security state to protect him and his family forever.

I'm not surprised by his decision.

[0rganism]

3. next year Trump will release his own report on how wildly successful it is, regardless

expect it
expect it to be accepted as The Truth with ZERO fact checking
expect what is outlined therein to become the norm for detentions by US military and police henceforth

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. Into the dustbin in goes

Along with all the war crime evidence of the Bush regime. Democrats playing their part in the good cop bad cop scene in support of their boss, the MIC, as usual.

[Solly Mack]

5. ...