2004 CIA Inspector General Torture Report's Release Delayed Again

The Washington Independent:

It was supposed to be a magical day: the day when, in response to an agreement reached in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Obama administration will declassify an important document in the history of its predecessor's apparatus of torture. I refer to the 2004 inquest undertaken by ex-CIA Inspector General John Helgerson into the CIA's interrogations and detentions programs. The Bush administration released an almost-totally-redacted version in May 2008, and despite the Obama administration's pledge to disclose a more-detailed version of the document, it punted the disclosure a week ago Friday to today. "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," ACLU attorney Amrit Singh said last week. "The CIA should not be permitted to use national security as a pretext for suppressing evidence of its own unlawful conduct."

Yeah, if only. The Obama administration won't release the document today. According to the ACLU, it's asked for a three-day reprieve. ACLU's consented. Game Day is now supposed to be July 1.

Read the whole story: The Washington Independent

Comments

[seedyrum]

the world is watching

Republicans always talk of FAMILY VALUES>SUPPORT OUR TROOPS> FOLLOWING THE CONSTITUTI­ON>CONTRAC­T LAW and a host of other things

Republican on family values: they vilified Pres Clinton during his tryst and even tried tto impeach him ( true he lied but) however whne one of theirs do the same or worse its a family matter or NO COMMENT>

REPUBLICANS says support our troops> first BUSH lied us in aa war so troops died >is that support??
sneding the troops without equipment or the right equipment or enough equipment >>is that support the troops??ALLOWING KBR TO ELECTROCUTE OUR TROOPS FOR FAULTING WIRING IS THE NEGLIGENCE OR MURDER (HAPPEN AT LEAST FOUR TIMES IF NOT MORE)

Republican says follow the CONSTITUTION but we have been wiretapped and treason has been commited and CONGRESS WAS LIED TO>

Republicans say contract law should prevail for bankers but broken for union workers
republican say usa doesnt torture but waaterboarding is torture and they dont want US citizen to see what was done in our name

REPUBLICANS are worse than hypocrites but what can be worse than talking out of both sides of your mouth while l ying??

if a democrate president did all that B USH AND C HENEY HAVE DONE would we be waiting for the evidence or better would impeachment be off the table????

to not prosecute the B USH C abal invite a republican administration to do this again (can we say NIXON)

the world is watching

[jsgaetano]

It saddens me to hear it, but the Bushites now have effective control over the White House.

They'll permit little meaningless stuff like shuffling the deck on health care and Wall Street, but there's no way they will let Obama fix the damage they've done to freedom in America these past eight years.

When Senator Obama voted for that horrible FISA bill which legalized all the spying the Bushites did on the American people, I knew it was over. Obama doesn't care about freedom or civil rights, he's too desperate for the approval of the Big Daddys from the GOP.

[Lori Bowles]

Isn't the UN pressuring the Obama administration on this also? I say the ACLU is doing great and the bigger picture has yet to unfold.

[jalex26000]

The bigger picture is rape sodomy and murder! Children were raped and sodomized in front for their parents, and US forces took video and pictures of it! Obama is just like bush only worse because he is a cruel hoax! At least we knew bush was a scumbucket!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/27/abu-ghraib-abuse-photos-i_n_208430.html

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/07/15/hersh/index.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/08/RUMSFELD.TMP&type=printable

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/may/22/iraq.usa1

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/01/photos/index.html

[grace14]

British is now also looking at it and Spain ..did you see what the British found out on Keith O...Bush flew planes over Iraq hoping Iraq would shoot them down to start a war..

[jalex26000]

Of course its going to be delayed. The administration hasnt figured out an effective way to cover up bush and richard cheney's war crimes and retroactivley ban these photos from getting to the American people. Why would Obama release these photos? He might have to actually prosecute these war criminals, he would never do that to his cousin richard cheney.

[grace14]

Please we all know they are not good reports...... already told in congress by a man (forget name) who read it all and said...cheney was man-- "baring false witness"-all what we were told on the (meaning cheney ?) news cycle "campaign"..... he said is "not true"... gave a huge long speech on the congress floor and that was reported on Rachel Maddow with the video of what the man said...

[NextYearLions]

Who cares? I need wall-to-wall MJ coverage and more 911 tapes! the MSM is really awful and deserves the ridicule it gets.

[LinkSync]

We need active investigations, not some waiting for a report.
Investigate and then prosecute whomever the investigations uncover as being complicit in these Anti-American activities.
I refer not just to torture but to the ONGOING practice of Renditon and Habeuas Corpus Abuse and Illegal Wiretapping as well.
All these are so counter to what the meaning of unalienable rights is, that it should be OBVIOUS that any officer or official or agent of our Governemnt that swears to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America is guilty of TREASON when they act in any manner supporting any of these actiivities.
That goes for the Obama administration and Mr. Obama as well, though I am reluctant to say so.
It can not be otherwise.
Honor and duty are not something tangilble yet they remain fundamentally our responsability BECAUSE of the proposition that all are equally endowed with unalienable rights.
Those rights put on us all those responsabilities as well as the benifits fo those same rights.
The Chief responsability is to uphold and defend and further any environment that does the same as regards those rights and the proposition that they are for all equally.
Torture and such does the opposite.
It tears at the very fabric of the meaning of America.
I say again, it is TREASON as well as a crime in my view, and fundamentally wrong regardless of efficacy or expediency, or any other so called justification.

Hang them ALL.

[ethancorso]

Destinatio­nsUnknown: People - A little patience...There are reasons for everything O does...It has been 5 months - are you not paying attention...There are so many burners on the communal stove...Have faith!

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With all due respect, that is a manifestly preposterous rationale for allowing war crimes to remain unpunished.

What if W. had repealed the prohibition on slavery? Would you insist that African Americans had a duty to wait for their freedom to be restored? Would you tolerate the involuntary servitude of African Americans if you believed freeing them would jeopardize other policy goals?

Of course not. If slavery had been re-legalized you would, rightfully, demand the immediate release of any slaves being held, regardless of how much the opposition might complain and regardless of whether or not other goals would be jeopardized. You would demand the release of slaves because you know full well that we have a moral responsibility that cannot be ignored.

Torture is as morally repellant as slavery. We have an obligation to right this wrong that trumps all other concerns.

[Paisano]

So...our constitutional lawyer aka president... Is continuing the suspension of the Constitution established by the Bush administration.

[DestinationsUnknown]

People-

A little patience

There are reasons for everything O does

It has been 5 months- are you not paying attention

There are so many burners on the communal stove

Have faith!

[PiscesPrincess]

Hear Hear.

[Coinyer101]

Admitted war criminals are not even being detained and questioned ,let alone arrested and charged. AG Holder needs to do his job, or resign.

[ethancorso]

Yep. If this persists, O deserves to be impeached, too.

[jalex26000]

Have faith? What kind of a statement is that? Like we had faith in bush after 9/11? This is unacceptable. Ill have faith when action is taken. Im sure Obama can handle more than 4 issues at once. I do it every day!

[MacQ]

This was one of Mr. Obama's worst mistakes.
He thought he could make political points with his base and that they would go away happy and not ask for more.
He thought the republicans would be cowed and duck for cover.

Wrong on both.
It simply made the left rabid for more blood, and the right demands that he back up his accusations.
This isn't going to go away.

[Coinyer101]

I am watching closely. This administration is already bordering on being complicit or obstructionist, imo.

[ethancorso]

Sad but true.

[bluevespagirl]

Just like not releasing the interview Cheney gave in 2004 on leaking the identity of Valerie Plame - maybe they don't want this report to be fodder for late-night-TV too.

“The government doesn’t want to have what’s in these documents end up on a late-night comedy show,” Sullivan said. (US District Judge in regards to the Plame interview documents)

[jazzman]

The war criminal still slinks around and does interviews on TV. This is because we now live in a country where government officials and financial executives do not have to obey the law. They have a Congress that will let them get away with anything. Meanwhile, for the rest of society 'three strikes and you're out' is still on the books.