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CIA Again Delays Release Of Key Torture Report
The release of the long-awaited CIA inspector general report on torture has been postponed once again.
The ACLU, which is suing to have the report released, just announced that the government is asking for yet another postponement on the date of the report's release -- this time, until August 31. The CIA had earlier said it would release the report June 19. That was then pushed back to June 26, and then again to July 1.
A heavily redacted version of the report was released last year, but at issue here is a version that would contain more information.
The ACLU says it has told the court it opposes the new delay. Jameel Jaffer, who directs the group's National Security Project said in the release:
The CIA has already had more than five months to review the inspector general's report, and the report is only about two hundred pages long. We're increasingly troubled that the Obama administration is suppressing documents that would provide more evidence that the CIA's interrogation program was both ineffective and illegal. President Obama should not allow the CIA to determine whether evidence of its own unlawful conduct should be made available to the public. The public has a right to know what took place in the CIA's secret prisons and on whose authority.
It hasn't been a good day for the Obama administration's claims to represent a new era of transparency and openness. Earlier today, a good-government group revealed that the Justice Department is arguing, as it did under President Bush, that it should not be required to release Dick Cheney's interview with federal investigators on the Valerie Plame affair.
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"President Obama should not allow the CIA to determine whether evidence of its own unlawful conduct should be made available to the public. The public has a right to know what took place in the CIA's secret prisons and on whose authority."
Why would President Obama complicate his attempt to accomplish the impossible by undermining his own instrument, the CIA? Won't graphic accounts of torture further inflame the Islamic world?
What incentive does Obama have for complying with his own promises and the law? Obama has far more reason for covering up Bush era crimes than Ford ever did for pardoning Nixon's, particularly since Obama needs to keep the book closed on his own ongoing crimes in the secret detention sites.
The closest thing to a perpetual motion machine is a well-organized racketeering operation, which is what the U.S. Presidency has indisputably become, whatever it 'used to be.' If the operation is broken, it won't be from the inside.
July 2, 2009 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Look, if a Secret-Service officer can be made to testify about a presidential blowjob, then the CIA can take its licks, too...
July 4, 2009 5:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
As this nation continues to morph into something unknown as yet, those at the top are doing whatever they can to ensure they are still at the top when the rumbling ends.
The Democrat party desires to be on top of the heap and the Republican party is wishing the same.
NEITHER party desires the common folk to come out on top.
Looks like they are winning, folks....
July 3, 2009 12:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Still waiting for the CIA to come clean about this little indiscretion, aren't we?
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/head-shot/
July 3, 2009 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Antelope Freeway, one-sixteenth mile...
July 4, 2009 5:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
The CIA approach to this seems to be: Delay as long as possible and the interest in obtaining the information may go away. In the meantime, we are not giving out anything incriminating - even with a court order requiring us to give it up.
It is time for some penalties for those people responsible for not complying with the court order.
Remember, the CIA itself cannot take any action. Action must be taken by individuals in the CIA. Find out who in the CIA is responsible for not complying with the court order and throw their sorry asses in jail until they comply with the court order.
Not providing penalties for non-compliance of the court order is just providing more evidence that the "Rule of Law" in the USA is a farce - it only applies to the masses, not to the powerful elite in Washington.
July 7, 2009 7:42 AM | Reply | Permalink