CIA records featuring details on torturous interrogation techniques, used by the spying agency when George W. Bush was in office, have been withheld by the Obama administration for more than five years, preventing Senate members from studying some 9,400 pages of top-secret documents. The US McClatchy DC newspaper reports that the documents came to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s notice in 2009 but US President Barack Obama and his administration have been unwilling to cooperate and help the investigators with their probe.
The US government’s reluctance to assist sparked speculations that the documents could contain revealing information about the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques against detainees in CIA custody.
Besides, recently, the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee have been involved in a bitter battle over secret agency’s alleged spying on Senate staff members taking part in the probe into the controversial CIA interrogation program.
On Wednesday, President Obama assured that it would be inappropriate for the White House to get involved into the issue.
However, many stick to the opinion that it’s not just a mere coincidence that Senators haven’t been able to get their hands on the information needed.
"These documents certainly raise the specter that the White House has been involved in stonewalling the investigation," Elizabeth Goitein, the co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program at the New York University Law School, asserted, commenting on the issue while the CIA and Senate Intelligence Committee have refrained from making any comment on the report.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_13/Obama-hiding-CIA-records-on-interrogation-techniques-used-by-US-spy-agency-3139/
On Wednesday, President Obama assured that it would be inappropriate for the White House to get involved into the issue.
However, many stick to the opinion that it’s not just a mere coincidence that Senators haven’t been able to get their hands on the information needed.
"These documents certainly raise the specter that the White House has been involved in stonewalling the investigation," Elizabeth Goitein, the co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program at the New York University Law School, asserted, commenting on the issue while the CIA and Senate Intelligence Committee have refrained from making any comment on the report.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_13/Obama-hiding-CIA-records-on-interrogation-techniques-used-by-US-spy-agency-3139/
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