rssJudge Orders 2004 CIA Inspector General Report on Torture Released by Aug. 24
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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So the Justice Department got most of what it wanted here. Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled this morning that the CIA will have until August 24 to release a declassified version of the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on torture, a report that documents abuse so disturbing it reportedly brought Attorney General Eric Holder to the point of authorizing a torture prosecutor. Two weeks ago, the department filed paperwork, contested by the American Civil Liverties Union, to delay a long-scheduled release of the report by August 31.
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Pingback posted July 15, 2009 @ 2:31 pm
[...] The judge has granted the CIA an extension of time until August 24 to release the [...]
Pingback posted July 15, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
[...] IG report, the one that the Justice Department has been delaying the release ofs, be released on August 24. The Justice Department basically wins, since they requested an August 31 date, and the ACLU wanted [...]
Pingback posted July 15, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
[...] IG report, the one that the Justice Department has been delaying the release ofs, be released on August 24. The Justice Department basically wins, since they requested an August 31 date, and the ACLU wanted [...]
Pingback posted July 16, 2009 @ 9:39 am
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Comment posted July 29, 2009 @ 4:20 pm
Can't wait to see all the redacted statements.
Prosecute all those that tortured in our name, then go after all the other Federal Crimes and violations of our Constitution committed by Bush and Cheney.
If House Judiciary Chairman Rep. John Conyers
does not soon start hearings in his Committee
on the crimes of the Bush Administration
WE Must ALL Call For His Resignation.
SIGN THE PETITIONS
Demanding
both a Commission of Inquiry
and a Special Prosecutor
For All Their Crimes
at ANGRYVOTERS.ORG
We must hang in there…
or our own children or grandchildren may in future decades
be tortured and imprisoned without cause because of our failure
Pingback posted August 25, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
[...] I will note in a forthcoming piece, Monday is the deadline set by a federal judge for the Obama administration to release a much-anticip… about the agency’s detentions and interrogations practices. Only the American Civil Liberties [...]
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