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The White House, despite publicly vowing to support the committee’s probe, has been rejecting or ignoring requests by Senate members in order to help them find ways to study some 9,400 pages of documents in past five years, an investigation by McClatchy DC has revealed.
The US administration has been
preventing the Senate Intelligence Committee and investigators from
reviewing CIA records about torturous interrogation techniques carried
out during the presidency of George W Bush, according to US media
reports
The White House, despite publicly vowing to support the committee’s probe, has been rejecting or ignoring requests by Senate members in order to help them find ways to study some 9,400 pages of documents in past five years, an investigation by McClatchy DC has revealed.
The report indicates that the documents came into
committee’s attention in 2009 and that the US president has still not
formally issued an order to protect them by executive privilege.
The Obama administration’s unwillingness to cooperate with the committee raises speculations that the documents could contain significant information about the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques against detainees in CIA custody.
The Obama administration’s unwillingness to cooperate with the committee raises speculations that the documents could contain significant information about the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques against detainees in CIA custody.
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