Senate Asks C.I.A. to Share Its Report on Interrogations - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/us/politics/senators-ask-to-see-internal-cia-review-of-interrogation-program.html?_r=0
The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the C.I.A. for an internal study done by the agency that lawmakers believe is broadly critical of the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program but was withheld from congressional oversight committees.
The committee’s request comes in the midst of a yearlong battle with the C.I.A. over the release of the panel’s own exhaustive report about the program, one of the most controversial policies of the post-Sept. 11 era.
The Senate report, totaling more than 6,000 pages, was completed last December but has yet to be declassified. According to people who have read the study, it is unsparing in its criticism of the now-defunct interrogation program and presents a chronicle of C.I.A. officials’ repeatedly misleading the White House, Congress and the public about the value of brutal methods that, in the end, produced little valuable intelligence.
Ces informations sont révélées au cours de l’audition par le Sénat de Caroline Krass, que B. Obama souhaite nommer comme juriste en chef de la CIA.
Senators Clash With CIA Nominee Over Torture - Udall demands classified report
▻http://www.newser.com/story/179394/senators-clash-with-cia-nominee-over-torture.html
The real drama in yesterday’s hearings came when Dianne Feinstein [California Democrat who is the Intelligence Committee’s chairwoman] pressed Krass on whether she’d release the Justice Department legal memos used to justify practices like torture and drone strikes. Krass was evasive at first, but ultimately replied, “I do not think so, as a general matter,” arguing that the memos were “confidential legal advice,” the Guardian and Politico report.