Obama Continues to Shield Public from Bush's CIA Torture Mess

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/13



These are the people behind the Bush torture program, but Obama continues to "look forward" despite the ugly implications of keeping Bush's secrets locked away.

Obama Continues to Shield Public from Bush's CIA Torture Mess
- Jon Queally, staff writer
Published on Thursday, March 13, 2014 by Common Dreams

What's in the more than 9,000 pages of top secrets documents held by the White House that the Senate Intelligence Committee and investigators looking into the Bush administration's torture program are not allowed to see?

After an unprecedented public skirmish between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA surfaced this week over an investigative panel's look into the agency's torture program, President Obama said Wednesday that he and his White House would not "wade into" the controversy.

But according to new reporting by McClatchy, the White House is not only not "uninvolved," it is actively keeping documents from the Intelligence Committee that it has repeatedly asked to see. As the news agency reports:

The White House has been withholding for five years more than 9,000 top-secret documents sought by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for its investigation into the now-defunct CIA detention and interrogation program, even though President Barack Obama hasn’t exercised a claim of executive privilege.

[diabeticman]

1. Shielding the public or the Bush administration. "We go forward not Backwards".

This whole thing should have NEVER been buried.

[merrily]

2. Oh, he's been shielding the PUBLIC.

All this time, I thought he was shielding the Executive. Silly me.

[Scuba]

3. "Shielding the public" implies he's protecting us. I can't agree with that characterization.