Reply #95: Democracy Now: Report: Under CIA Pressure, Obama to Withhold Parts of Torture Memos

[L. Coyote]

Headlines for April 15, 2009

Report: Under CIA Pressure, Obama to Withhold Parts of Torture Memos
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/15/headlines

President Obama is reportedly wavering on a pledge to fully reveal Bush administration memos authorizing CIA torture. According to the Wall Street Journal, the White House is leaning toward withholding graphic details of tactics authorized in three classified memos from 2005. The details include approval for striking a prisoner’s head against a wall and the practice known as waterboarding. The issue is reportedly centering around warnings from top intelligence officials that the memos’ full disclosure would anger CIA employees and alienate them from the White House. President Obama faces a Thursday court deadline to act on releasing the memos under a lawsuit brought by the ACLU.

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