California senator fights CIA for transparency on torture of terrorist suspects

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, has been waging a five-year-old battle with the CIA and Obama administration to discover details of torture of terrorists after 9-11 in violation of U.S. law and international treaties. And since gaining access to millions of pages on the topic from the CIA and Defense Department, she wants to make the information or at least the 510-page summary available to the public. (San Francisco Chronicle, August 9, 2014, by Carolyn Lochhead)

Feinstein is trying to head off CIA redactions that would keep secret important facts and conclusions about the torture. Steve Chapman, Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 7, 2014, noted that the CIA and others have lied to the country routinely and that they were now trying to hide facts about torture that put the CIA in violation of a 1994 federal law banning the practice and other evidence according to the Associated Press showing that the torture was more brutal than disclosed and did not produce information that saved lives.

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  • The CIA must release its reports for the good of the American public
    and government. If CIA is guilty of torture then they must be punished. CIA is not above the law. They must conform in the guidelines of the constitution.

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