The Senate Is Not Happy That the CIA Censored Its Report on CIA Torture

[Ichingcarpenter]

Senator Dianne Feinstein, said a “preliminary review” of the summary contained “significant redactions,” and the report will now be held by the Intelligence Committee until “further notice” in order to figure out the “basis” and “justification” for blacking out portions of the document.
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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, whose office oversaw the multi-agency declassification review that included the State and Justice departments, disputed Feinstein’s characterization that the executive summary contained far too many redactions, calling them “minimal.”


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VICE News previously reported that the report allegedly accuses “senior CIA officials” of lying during multiple closed-session briefings to members of Congress from 2003 to 2005 about the use of certain “enhanced” interrogation techniques. Sources also say the report suggests the agency sanctioned leaks to selected journalists about phantom terror plots that were supposedly disrupted as a result of information gained through "enhanced interrogation."



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Zeke Johnson, a spokesman for Amnesty International, told VICE News that “there has to be legal and ethical consequences” for what Obama acknowledged during the press briefing. “This isn’t just about the CIA and the people who carried out the torture,” he said. “It’s about the need for accountability at the highest levels from Bush on down.”


He added that under the Convention Against Torture, to which the US is a signatory, the United States is now “obligated to investigate, prosecute, and provide victims remedy” in the form of compensation. “There is a legal obligation to tell the full truth about torture and to hold people accountable. We can’t just say, ‘Oops, we tortured some folks’ and shrug it off. Clearly the US government tortured people. Now the question is whether the US will abide by its obligations under the Convention Against Torture, or will impunity continue?”

Obama appears to have already answered that question. He said he believes the release of the Senate’s apparently heavily censored 480-page executive summary is an example of how the US takes “responsibility” for torturing war on terror prisoners.

“Hopefully," Obama said, "we don’t do it again in the future."

https://news.vice.com/article/the-senate-is-not-happy-that-the-cia-censored-its-report-on-cia-torture

[PoliticAverse]

1. "obligated to ..., prosecute,” - apparently not. n/t

[KG]

2. Hopefully," Obama said, "we don’t do it again in the future."

as if 'we' ever stopped...

[kentuck]

3. A good point.

“This isn’t just about the CIA and the people who carried out the torture,” he said. “It’s about the need for accountability at the highest levels from Bush on down.”

[newfie11]

4. I fear at what my country has become

A bully!
We spread war across the earth by supplying weapons and who knows what else.
But we are sanctimonious about it!
Please Don't anyone notice the atrocities we've done, governments we've destroyed, all to support big business in South America.

Bad bad Russia, that's the currant flavor of the day!

But wait we must support our weapon manufacturers.
So we send weapons to use on palestinian civilians in Israel!

[Trillo]

5. Am I understanding this correctly?

Because the CIA blacked out some portions, the report as censored will not be released until some undisclosed time in the future?

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Ichingcarpenter.