'Shocking' report on CIA interrogation closer to public release | BREAKING NEWS - 4 APRIL 2014

‘Shocking’ report on CIA interrogation closer to public release | BREAKING NEWS – 4 APRIL 2014

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The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday for the public release of key parts of a report on the notorious CIA detention and interrogation program launched after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
A final decision on declassifying the information now rests with the White House, and it was unclear how long such a process would take.
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said the panel she leads voted 11-3 in a closed-door session to declassify the 480-page executive summary and 20 findings and conclusions of the five-year study.
Feinstein called the report’s findings “shocking,” saying it “exposes brutality that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation.”
“A stain on our history”
“It chronicles a stain on our history that must never again be allowed to happen,” she said. “This is not what Americans do.”
The committee’s ranking Republican, Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, said he voted to declassify the information in order to move past the politically volatile issue from the GOP administration of former President George W. Bush.
“This is a chapter in our past that should have already been closed,” he said.
Two other Republicans on the panel — Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Jim Risch of Idaho — said they voted against declassification of the report they labeled as “one-sided” and “partisan,” adding the public release of the information would fail to end the debate.
Critics of the CIA detention and interrogation program, including President Barack Obama, have called the use of controversial techniques including waterboarding a violation of laws prohibiting torture.
Obama banned the practices when he took office in 2009, after the CIA had already stopped using them.
Defenders say the program started in response to the terror attacks yielded valuable intelligence that led to major victories in the fight against al Qaeda, including the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.
Feinstein said her panel also was sending the full 6,200-page report to the White House for possible declassification sometime in the future.
Usually one of the CIA’s staunchest backers, Feinstein has recently lashed out at the agency in a dispute over the committee staff’s preparation of the report, which has been complete since 2012.
The CIA has asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Senate staffers violated the law by accessing classified internal information based on the same documents the agency turned over to the Senate for its review.

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'Shocking' report on CIA interrogation closer to public release | BREAKING NEWS - 4 APRIL 2014