Friday, October 24, 2014

Delaying the Report

The Obama administration, along with Congress and the CIA are managing quite well to suppress the release of the Senate report on torture.
The report, which Senate Democratic staffers worked on for five years, is over 6,000 pages long and is said to disclose new details about both the CIA’s brutal and systemic abuse of detainees and the pattern of deceit CIA officials used to hide what they had done.

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Human-rights lawyer Scott Horton, who interviewed a wide range of intelligence and administration officials for his upcoming book, “Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Foreign Policy,” told The Intercept that the White House and the CIA are hoping a Republican Senate will, in their words, “put an end to this nonsense.”

Stalling for time until after the midterm elections and the start of a Republican-majority session is the “battle plan,” Horton said. “I can tell you that Brennan has told people in the CIA that that’s his prescription for doing it.”

Republicans are widely expected to win control of the Senate Nov. 4.

  The Intercept
Check out Ray McGovern's interview where he backs up the idea that the report "will never see the light of day in any real semblance of what it really is."


..but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

P.S.  He says Obama "is afraid" of the CIA.  "He knows what happened to John Kennedy."  Says he lacks backbone.  "It's about cowardice on the part of Obama and Biden, the attorney general and the others."

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