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.McClatchy
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.
Despite vows of help, White House withholds thousands of documents from Senate CIA probe
Jonathan S. Landay, Ali Watkins And Marisa Taylor
This is giving a peek into how corrupt the US government is and how the US has become a rogue state.
This is giving a peek into how corrupt the US government is and how the US has become a rogue state.
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The intelligence services are limitless! Apparently they were even tracking maintenance data from jets in their counter terrorism efforts. They've let everyone know the Malaysian airliner was likely hijacked to Pakistan and never crashed. So we've terrorists that have a jet on the loose without a transponder. Think of the possibilities there.
I guess we agree on something. While we're at it, let's provide the rogue state with a funny money machine so that their antics are not "revenue constrained".
Ryan, looks like Boeing was receiving engine telemetry for 4 hours beyond the moment that it reportedly went missing from the nav/atc system.... info starting to trickle out...
good idea bob, let's screw over all humanity so the paranoid can sleep better at night.... TIP: take another form of pharma to help you sleep at night and let the non-paranoid rest of us get on with re-building a righteous society...
The way to restrain a rogue government is through the ballot box and taxing away economic rent to reduce the power of the elite that profits from war and empire.
Adopting the gold standard would be a step in the wrong direction since in the past that has always led to mercantilism and mercantilism to imperialism, colonialism and eventually war.
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