Mark Udall to consider all options to reveal CIA torture report

[deminks]

http://gazette.com/mark-udall-to-consider-all-options-to-reveal-cia-torture-report/article/1541366#!

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Mark Udall has seven weeks left in office, but the Colorado Democrat isn't prepared to go quietly — especially when it comes to the twin issues of CIA torture and government snooping.

In his first interview since Election Day, Udall told The Denver Post that he would "keep all options on the table," including a rarely-used right given to federal lawmakers, to publicize a secret report about the harsh interrogation techniques used by CIA agents in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

He also vowed to make one final push to curb the National Security Agency and its power to gather information on ordinary Americans.

"Trying to run out the clock ... is not an option," Udall said Thursday of the long-hidden CIA report. "The truth will come out."

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Make it so, Senator. Make it so.

[Octafish]

1. Now that is a brave Senator, a Democrat.

Udall said the American people would be furious if they knew what secret government was doing to them and, thanks to USA PATRIOT Act, he can't even tell us why. From 2012, before Snowden:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002440614

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2. What an ass

Had he won. It could have waited.

[Autumn]

7. Why should it wait?

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9. I'm saying it would have waited had be

Been relected.

[Autumn]

11. I still don't understand. Why should the information release delayed?

It wasn't even an issue in his campaign here in CO.

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12. It shouldn't. But it has been delayed and would have

Still been delayed had he won.

Maybe he should have grown a pair before he got them cut off.

Maybe it should have been a campaign issue instead of the nonsense he ran.

[Autumn]

13. He didn't run on nonsense. There was a hell of a lot of outside money used

against him. Can you say Koch machine? And as for Gardner? Hell if I didn't know better, from his ads you would have sworn he was a Liberal from Hell, even to the point of over the counter birth control for women.

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14. Everyone has/had outside money.

It's not a factor. Both parties raised nearly equal amounts of money.

I didn't hear anyone bitching about warren getting outside money. Including me. Who cares if everyone is doing it.

[Autumn]

15. Well alrighty then.

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16. ...

[grasswire]

3. how can we encourage Udall to do this?

[Scuba]

4. Tell it Mark. America needs to hear the truth.

[johnnyreb]

5. Courage and conviction.

Swoon!!

[Autumn]

6. Do not go quietly Senator.

I would rather you not go at all but when you go, go out with a bang.

[spanone]

8. K&r...

[nilesobek]

10. Godspeed Sen. Udall.

It might also be a good and decent idea to avoid small plane travel and driving alone.