are high. In the words of the Times’ report, the Justice Department is “effectively keeping the people in charge of America’s counterterrorism future from reading about its past”. Under the Bush administration, the Justice Department played an integral role in the CIA programme, beginning with its authorisation of most of the torture methods the agency would use on detainees. Today’s Justice Department should welcome a thorough examination of the terrible mistakes of the past – not seek to ensure that the report never sees the light of day.
Sen Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif), the former SCCI chair who led the research and writing of the report, wrote to the Justice Department last week, asking Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey to allow government officials to read the full report in order to learn “from the mistakes of the past to ensure that they are not repeated”. We wholeheartedly agree.
All of this raises the question: Why is the executive branch fighting so hard to keep the full torture report from the American public? Perhaps because officials know that the report is damning – and its release will spur renewed calls for CIA accountability.
But ignoring the torture report won’t make it go away. Truth has a way of coming out eventually.
This article originally appeared as: ‘Who’s afraid of the torture report?’
Courtesy: Commondreams.org
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