Senate Panel Votes to Reveal Report on C.I.A. Interrogations
By DAVID S. JOACHIMAPRIL 3, 2014
WASHINGTON — The public will soon get its first look at a voluminous report on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation practices during the George W. Bush administration, after the Senate Intelligence Committee voted on Thursday to declassify key sections of it.
“The report exposes brutality that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation,” Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat of California and the chairwoman of the committee, said in a written statement after the vote.
It continued, “This is not what Americans do.”
The committee voted to declassify the report’s executive summary and conclusions — more than 500 of its 6,200 pages. The next step is President Obama’s approval. Mr. Obama, who opposed the C.I.A. program as a presidential candidate and discontinued it once he took office in 2009, has said he wants the findings of the report made public. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage
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The White House would not say how long it would take the administration to review the report for sensitive national security disclosures, but a spokeswoman said the process, which will include a review by the C.I.A., would be expedited.
“We urge the committee to complete the report and send it to us, so that we can declassify the findings and the American people can understand what happened in the past, and that can help guide us as we move forward,” said Caitlin Hayden, the spokeswoman for the National Security Council. “We’ll do that as expeditiously as we can.”
People who have read the report, written by the Senate committee, say it offers the most detailed look to date on the C.I.A.’s brutal methods of interrogating terrorism suspects in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It concludes that the spy agency repeatedly misled Congress, the White House and the public about the benefits of the program, under which more than 100 detainees were interrogated. ...
