Atrasa em liberar o relatório do CIA é procurado

Dept. da justiça Quer mais Tempo rever Findings de IG no tratamento do detido

por Carrie Johnson

O departamento da justiça necessita uma semana terminar sua revisão de um relatório 2004 de general de inspector do CIA antes de liberá-lo no formulário redigido aos advogados das liberdades civis, oficiais ditos ontem.

Os advogados do governo notificaram as liberdades que civis americanas a união do atrasa ontem a tarde, citing um processo longo-do que-esperado da revisão no CIA. As activistas pediram o relatório como parte de uma liberdade longstanding do lawsuit do ato da informação que focaliza nos ESTADOS UNIDOS. detention e tratamento do governo de terrorismo suspeitos após o Sept. 11, 2001, ataques.

CIA officials sought to redact many sensitive and classified elements of the lengthy report, including details about the use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other harsh measures against detainees. The report by the agency’s internal watchdog raised questions about the legality of the CIA’s strategy and ignited a fierce debate within the agency and the Bush administration after it was completed five years ago.

Tension over how much to disclose in the fight against terrorism continues to roil the highest levels of the Obama administration. After a behind-the-scenes fight, authorities released earlier this year four memos by the Bush Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel that paved the way for information-gathering techniques that critics assert are torture. But at the urging of Defense Department officials, the White House has sought to bar the release of photos depicting detainee abuse on the ground that they could incite violence against U.S. forces.

The report is the most definitive official account to date of the CIA’s interrogation system. A heavily redacted version, consisting of a dozen or so paragraphs separated by heavy black boxes and lists of missing pages, was released in May 2008 in response to the ACLU lawsuit. The broad conclusions of the report, as well as its specific assertion that some interrogators exceeded limits approved by the Justice Department, have been disclosed.

Administration officials have been cool to the idea of a congressionally chartered “truth commission” that would explore the origins and effects of the interrogation program. But they have repeatedly been forced to respond to lawsuits they inherited, filed by interest groups that seek sensitive government documents from the Bush era.

New leaders at the Justice Department generally lean toward disclosure, but they are playing a secondary role in the case of the CIA inspector general’s report because they did not have a hand in investigating or preparing the report.

Amrit Singh, an ACLU lawyer, said the group is disappointed by the delay. “We can only hope that this delay is a sign that the forces of transparency within the Obama administration are winning over the forces of secrecy and that the report will ultimately be released with minimal redactions,” she said. “The CIA should not be permitted to use national security as a pretext for suppressing evidence of its own unlawful conduct.”

CIA spokesman George Little said the process “is working just as it should.” He rejected the ACLU’s allegations of suppressed evidence as “wrong and offensive.”

Joby Warrick contributed to this report.

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