Star Member Octafish (38,558 posts)
White House withholds thousands of documents from Senate CIA probe, despite vows of help
BY JONATHAN S. LANDAY, ALI WATKINS AND MARISA TAYLOR
McClatchy Washington BureauMarch 12, 2014
WASHINGTON — The White House has been withholding for five years more than 9,000 top-secret documents sought by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for its investigation into the now-defunct CIA detention and interrogation program, even though President Barack Obama hasn’t exercised a claim of executive privilege.
In contrast to public assertions that it supports the committee’s work, the White House has ignored or rejected offers in multiple meetings and in letters to find ways for the committee to review the records, a McClatchy investigation has found.
The significance of the materials couldn’t be learned. But the administration’s refusal to turn them over or to agree to any compromise raises questions about what they would reveal about the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists in secret overseas prisons.
The dispute indicates that the White House is more involved than it has acknowledged in the unprecedented power struggle between the committee and the CIA, which has triggered charges that the agency searched the panel’s computers without authorization and has led to requests to the Justice Department for criminal investigations of CIA personnel and Senate aides.
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A few words about Octafish first...Octafish is probably DU's leading consumer of conpiracy theories. He went to something like the 50th annual JFK CT Hoedown, Hootenanny, and BBQ (or whatever they call it) and the fact that they have one EVERY year tells you all you need to know about them: they're not interested in knowing the "truth." They're interested in taking guesses about the truth, and that's it.
Octafish can conjure a CT over anything, and prefers a CT to practical explanation. Octafish watches movies like The Parallax View like other people watch porn.
All of which to say, Octafish couldn't be more pleased that 0loser is withholding documents - anything that colors the truth with even a dot of murkiness is like heroin to him.
At the end of the day, however, no one cares. Not even 0bama's Human Bidet ProSense has more than a few words:
Star Member ProSense (113,789 posts)
3. "The president has stated an unequivocal commitment...
The president has stated an unequivocal commitment to supporting the declassification of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report. Coloradans expect me to hold him to his word."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024662090
That's all she has. He SAID he would support it, so he IS. Because he SAID he would.
And if you
like your doctor...
