The ideological partnership between the Washington Post and the Central Intelligence Agency is becoming despicable. For the past several weeks, the Post has carried a series of editorial and op-eds that were designed to prevent the release of the Justice Department memoranda that permitted the use of CIA torture and abuse and to prevent any [...]
For the second time in two weeks, the Justice Department told a federal Judge the CIA needs more time to review an inspector general’s report on the Bush administration’s torture program before deciding whether any of the contents can be released. In a letter Friday to U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein, the Justice Department [...]
The CIA has delayed by one week the release of an inspector general’s report on the Bush administration’s torture program, the Justice Department said in a letter sent to the American Civil Liberties Union Friday. In the letter, Lev Dassin, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said the CIA’s “reprocessing [...]
President Barack Obama’s promise of a more open government faces a new test this week as his administration weighs whether to release details of a May 2004 internal CIA report about the agency’s use of torture, including how at least three detainees were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The secret findings of CIA Inspector General [...]
