White House pressed to release report into CIA torture programme/Financial Times UK
Transparency in Government????
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8ed6978e-c196-11e3-b95f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2ybdvHkxa
The White House is facing intense pressure to release a secret congressional report into the CIA’s torture programme after a leaked summary described the interrogation methods as “brutal” and detailed extensive efforts by the agency to evade oversight.
The Senate intelligence committee, which spent four years investigating the CIA’s use of torture after the 9/11 attacks until 2006, concluded that the interrogations “did not effectively assist” the agency in securing good intelligence and “came with heavy costs” to the US’s global reputation.
The report, which is 6,300 pages long and was completed more than a year ago, has reopened debate about one of the most controversial aspects of the Bush-era ‘war on terror’ despite efforts by the Obama administration to avoid a political fight over the issue of torture.
Shortly before he took office, President Barack Obama indicated that he did not plan to prosecute CIA officials over their role in the torture programme.
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