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Ärende: The CIA
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The Bush CIA tortured people, but they kept it secret.

Civil Liberties Advocates Calls for Senate Intelligence Investigation to be
Public

 By Daphne Eviatar 2/27/09 12:50 PM

As I reported yesterday, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is
planning to launch a thorough review of the CIA's interrogation techniques
used in the "war on terror" during the Bush administration. The inquiry,
which has not yet been formally announced because its scope and procedures
are still being developed, will be the first major review of the CIA's
interrogation tactics and treatment of detainees since the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Civil liberties advocates have been trying to get much of this information
for years and are pleased that the intelligence committee is planning to
investigate. But they are also concerned that the final report of the
committee might not be made public, which in their view would defeat an
important part of its purpose. Their fears are founded.

When the Senate Armed Services Committee released a summary of its report
on the development of the military's interrogation techniques in December,
which concluded that waterboarding and other abuses were authorized by top
defense officials including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, it was
unable to publish the committee's complete findings because the final
report was deemed classified.

Congressional sources said the intelligence committee is unlikely to
conduct any open hearings on the CIA's practices. But it remains unclear
whether the complete findings and final report of the committee will be
made public.

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