{"id":268268,"date":"2016-09-19T01:20:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T01:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-media-ignores-cia-cover-up-on-torture-2\/"},"modified":"2016-09-19T01:20:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T01:20:16","slug":"us-media-ignores-cia-cover-up-on-torture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-media-ignores-cia-cover-up-on-torture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US Media Ignores CIA Cover-Up on Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MEMORANDUM FOR: <\/strong>Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
FROM:<\/strong> Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
SUBJECT: <\/strong>U.S. Media Mum On How Your Committee Faced Down Both CIA and Obama<\/p>\n

We write to thank you for your unwavering support for your extraordinarily courageous and tenacious staff in (1) investigating CIA torture under the Bush\/Cheney administration and (2) resisting CIA\/White House attempts under the Obama administration to cover up heinous torture crimes like waterboarding.<\/p>\n

We confess to having been shocked at the torture detailed in the version of the executive summary<\/a> your Committee released on December 9, 2014. We found ourselves wondering what additional behavior could have been deemed so repugnant that the White House and CIA insisted it be redacted; and if the entire 6,700-page investigation \u2013 with whatever redaction might be truly necessary \u2013 would ever see the light of day. We think you could take steps now to make it less likely that the full report be deep-sixed, and we will make some suggestions below toward that end.<\/p>\n

With well over 400 years of intelligence experience under our collective belt, we wondered how you managed to get the investigation finished and the executive summary up and out (though redacted). We now know the backstory \u2013 thanks to the unstinting courage of the committee\u2019s principal investigator Daniel Jones, who has been interviewed by Spencer Ackerman<\/a>, an investigative reporter for The (UK) Guardian newspaper. The titanic struggle depicted by Ackerman reads like a crime novel; sadly, the four-part series is nonfiction:<\/p>\n

I. \u201cSenate investigator breaks silence about CIA\u2019s \u2018failed coverup\u2019 of torture report<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

II. \u201cInside the fight to reveal the CIA\u2019s torture secrets<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

III. \u201d \u2018A constitutional crisis\u2019: the CIA turns on the Senate<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

IV. \u201cNo looking back: the CIA torture report\u2019s aftermath<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

Ackerman\u2019s reporting on Jones\u2019s tenacity in facing down the gorilla CIA makes abundantly clear how richly deserved was the encomium you gave Jones<\/a> when he left the committee staff in December 2015.<\/p>\n

You noted, \u201cWithout his indefatigable work on the Intelligence Committee staff, the Senate report on the CIA\u2019s Detention and Interrogation Program would not have been completed, nor would its 525-page executive summary have been released to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems equal praise might well be due to anySnowden-like patriot\/whistleblower who \u201cinadvertently\u201d included the \u201cPanetta Review\u201d in the reams of material given your committee by the CIA.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, a full week after The Guardian<\/em> carried Ackerman\u2019s revelations, none has been picked up by US\u201cmainstream\u201d newspapers. Not the New York Times<\/em>, the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, the Washington Post<\/em> \u2013 not even The Hill<\/em>.<\/p>\n

(As for alternative media, Charles P. Pierce\u2019s timely piece<\/a> for Esquire <\/em>whetted his readers\u2019 appetite for the gripping detail of the Guardian<\/em> series, explaining that it would be…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee on IntelligenceFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySUBJECT: U.S. Media Mum On How Your Committee Faced Down Both CIA and Obama We write to thank you for your unwavering support for your extraordinarily courageous and tenacious staff in (1) investigating CIA torture under the Bush\/Cheney administration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}