Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats Prepare To Battle New GOP Chairman On CIA Torture Report

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/22/gop-torture-report_n_6527476.html

The fight goes on:

In a related development, Burr said that he had referred the matter of Feinstein's disclosure to the Senate parliamentarian, the upper chamber's adviser on procedure and rules. Burr said his referral suggested that Feinstein may have violated the panel’s fiercely secretive rules by sending the full report to the executive branch without a vote by the intelligence committee.

“We’ve asked the parliamentarian to look at the hearing records from the committee to see if, in fact, our understanding of what transpired is correct … whether [Feinstein] had the authority to send it,” Burr told HuffPost. “I’ll let the parliamentarian determine whether, in fact, she followed the committee rules.”

The White House declined to comment on how it planned to respond to Burr’s request, or on whether it would comply by sending its copies of the full report back to Congress.

Burr's letter to the White House said Feinstein had sent the classified torture report to the executive branch without consulting then-ranking member Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) or any members of the panel's minority. But Feinstein has challenged that notion, claiming that her disclosure was covered by the 112th Congress’ vote to complete the torture study, as well as a 2014 committee vote to release a redacted version of the study’s executive summary.

The comments section is extraordinary!

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Becoming more or less

obvious as to what will and what won't happen in this Congress. We are in for some major politicization of every minute bit of rule making or standing past practices. One only has to look at or try to listen to commentaries of or by Rethug operatives. Remember how Sensenbrener ran the House of Representatives,appears this methodology is in full play. Black is white,orange is red,up is down and the it's your fault you are struggling.

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2. kudos to those Democrats who remain in the fight.

Senator Wyden has been relentless.