By Kara Brandeisky and Sisi Wei/ProPublica
“The Senate began investigating the CIA’s detainee program nearly six years ago. It completed a draft of its report two years ago. On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee finally released the report’s blistering executive summary. (The full report remains classified.) What took so long? It’s a tale of White House indecisiveness, Republican opposition, and CIA snooping.”
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Previously:
* The New York Times Finally Admits We Tortured Some Folks.
* The Senate Report On CIA Interrogations You May Never See.
* Obama Administration Proves Why We Need Someone To Leak The CIA Torture Report.
And:
For 5 years, White House has withheld 9,000 top secret documents from senators investigating CIA torture http://t.co/FfZ7kNiHZ1
— Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola) March 13, 2014
The White House is reportedly “fiercely resisting” the release of the Senate’s CIA torture report http://t.co/q8KWpyFRD8
— Trevor Timm (@trevortimm) November 19, 2014
Posted on December 10, 2014