Torture delay
by digby
Of course they did:
The chief author of the Senate’s so-called “torture report” urged President Obama on Tuesday to make more of the document available to the public, over the objections of the CIA. She charged the intelligence agency’s edits “eliminate or obscure key facts” about controversial interrogation practices during the Bush administration.
“I am sending a letter today to the president laying out a series of changes to the redactions that we believe are necessary prior to public release,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein (D.-California) said in a statement. The letter itself was not made public.
“The White House and the intelligence community have committed to working through these changes in good faith,” she said, adding that “this process will take some time, and the report will not be released until I am satisfied that all redactions are appropriate.”
Feinstein’s comments came one day after White House press secretary Josh Earnest defended the redactions, which the intelligence community argues are necessary to protect operatives and allies who took part in the CIA’s controversial detention and interrogation programs.
Hey some patriotic folks tortured some folks. There's no need to wallow in it. I'm sure it won't happen again.
This is just ridiculous. This is a Senate document and they went to some lengths already to protect sources and methods and yada, yadda. This White House edit is ridiculous. The Senate is an equal branch charged with oversight.
Daniel Ellsberg says that someone should leak the entire unredacted report and I suspect that will happen at some point. The question is if anyone in the Senate right now has the cojones. (It's possible the leak could come from the WH or the CIA, but it's obviously less likely.)
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