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Americans are waiting for the public release of an extensive, carefully validated four-year report from the Senate Intelligence Committee on the history of CIA torture and its other crimes against our rule of law and the international rule of law.
But I was not surprised to see that the release of this report had been delayed indefinitely.
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"Senate Democrats engaged in a tug-of-war with the White House over heavy redactions to its long-delayed torture report remain furious that President Obama allowed the CIA to censor the document"
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"We tortured some folks," the president said in an Aug. 1 White House press conference.
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"Obscured" is a euphemism for censored.
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"CIA went beyond legal memo. In 2002, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel drafted a report authorizing CIA torture, saying that the use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and stress positions were perfectly legal. It was written by Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo" (who is still a University of California law school professor and frequent writer-lecturer)
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"'It literally demolishes any rationale that Obama and (Attorney General Eric) Holder had for not investigating, for not bringing criminal charges, or even launching a criminal inquiry against people who were responsible for implementing this,'
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How about bringing an impeachment inquiry of commander in chief Barack Obama? He was -- and is -- deeply involved in hiding these crimes against our rule of law and our disintegrating Constitution.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff081314.php3
Where in constitution is CIA absolved of its multitude of crimes?
By Nat Hentoff
Published August 13, 2014
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