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Klingons 'Mistakenly' Delete Copy Of Torture Report
2016-05-17
[Daily Caller] The internal watchdog of the Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged it "mistakenly" destroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate torture report at the same time lawyers for the Justice Department were assuring a federal judge that copies of the document were being preserved, as initially reported by Yahoo News.

According to multiple intelligence community sources familiar with the incident, although copies of the report exist, the erasure of the controversial document by the watchdog has alarmed Senator Dianne Feinstein, who oversaw the torture investigation two years ago, and reignited a debate over whether the entire report should ever be released.

The 6,700-page report contains meticulous details, including original CIA cables and memos, on the agency's use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other aggressive interrogation methods at "black site" prisons overseas. A 500-page executive summary was released in December 2014.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  I'm not so sure I'd like the media drones to have access to all 6,000 pages from which they would cherry-pick sensational bits. That's why we have Wikileaks.

That's not sarcasm, is it? Cynicism, perhaps? Disgust! That's it!
Posted by: Bobby   2016-05-17 13:00  

#7  When your government acts like the criminals it used to prosecute... it may be time for the cartridge box.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-05-17 11:20  

#6  The whole CIA EIT program was an utter failure then...and still haunts us today. Because of the CIA's amateurish, incompetent, and short-sighted behavior we lost our capability for long term detention/interrogation of High Value Detainees (now they are droned and we lose the intel they would have given us). I am OK with droning them, but would rather have the intel they potentially would have provided in order to lead to additional targets.
Posted by: Tennessee   2016-05-17 11:07  

#5  Precidential behavior established by IRS, WH, SoS, et. al.
Silly to think Feinstein would have kept a copy.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-05-17 07:02  

#4  What's the old story? Love you so much they'll pick the corn or peanuts out of your - never mind...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2016-05-17 05:57  

#3  So, get it back.
Posted by: newc   2016-05-17 03:07  

#2  "The dog ate my homework."
Posted by: SteveS   2016-05-17 02:53  

#1  Only had that single copy did they? Nothing digital or 'homebrew' I take it? Really nothing to be seen here. Time to move along.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-05-17 02:40  

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