Libere os memorandos da tortura

Newsweek:

“Como relatado por NEWSWEEK, a casa branca último mês tinha aceitado uma recomendação do suporte do Attorney General Eric declassify e para liberar publicamente três 2005 memorandos que descrevem gràfica técnicas ásperas da interrogação aprovou para que o CIA use-se de encontro aos suspeitos de Qaeda do Al. Mas após a história, ESTADOS UNIDOS. os oficiais da inteligência, conduzidos pelo aide sênior John Brennan da nacional-segurança, montaram uma campanha intensa para começar a decisão invertida, de acordo com um familiar oficial da administração sênior com o debate. “O inferno Holy quebrou frouxo sobre este,” disse o oficial, de que pediu para não ser identificado por causa político sensibilidades.

Brennan is a former senior CIA official who was once considered by Obama for agency director but withdrew his name late last year after public criticism that he was too close to past officials involved in Bush administration decisions. Brennan, who now oversees intelligence issues at the National Security Council, argued that release of the memos could embarrass foreign intelligence services who cooperated with the CIA, either by participating in overseas “extraordinary renditions” of high-level detainees or housing them in overseas “black site” prisons.”"

Fear of embarrassing countries who cooperated with us cannot possibly be the reason for not releasing the memos. The solution is too simple: just redact their names and any identifying details. Are we supposed to believe that this has not occurred to Panetta or Holder? Or that there is some identifying detail that is so thoroughly intertwined with the legal arguments that it cannot possibly be edited out?

Give me a break.

President Obama: let us see what our public servants defended as lawful, and the arguments they used. If necessary, don’t name the countries who, to their shame, decided to assist us. But don’t insult our intelligence by pretending that you and your administration have never heard of White-Out.

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