CIA and US Senate row over torture report leads to IG investigation

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"CIA Inspector General’s office “accidentally” destroyed its copy of the report"

accidentally? These assholes know they are beyond the reach of all three branches of govt.

They are a secret govt unto themselves, immune to all attacks, beyond control of anybody.

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Trump Administration surrenders the report:

The last iteration of the Obama administration’s ambivalent “look forward not back” at ude toward the defunct Bush-era CIA torture program — banning it, but not investigating what happened — was the Obama Justice Department’s resistance to an effort to get a copy of the full, still-classified Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report about that program deposited with the judiciary for safekeeping during the Trump years. But as the Obama era came to an end, two Federal District Court judges for the District of Columbia ordered the executive branch to provide a copy of the report to the court’s security officer, and today, on the deadline set by one of them, the Trump administration complied rather than appeal.

http://www.charliesavage.com/?p=1478

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Trump Administration surrenders the report:

http://www.charliesavage.com/?p=1478

A delectable red herring. Chow!

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the congressional torture report is not subject to FOIA, rules the 2nd Circuit

https://x.com/RobertSkvarla/status/1821161242997711132

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In the Second Circuit panel’s Monday ruling, the court cited another Second Circuit decision from 2022, Behar v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where the court determined that an en y not covered by FOIA, such as Congress, would have to show that it manifested a clear control of the do ents, and that the receiving agency is not free to “use and dispose of the do ents as it sees fit.”

“The committee manifested a clear intent to control the report at the time of its creation, and because the committee’s subsequent acts did not vitiate the intent, the report cons utes a congressional record not subject to FOIA,” U.S. Circuit Judge William J. Nardini, a Donald Trump appointee, wrote in the panel’s decision.

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“It’s really frustrating for everyone that Congress doesn’t apply the same transparency rules it applies to the executive branch to itself,” Fenster told Courthouse News. “Which I think is foolish and unfortunate, but it is legislative prerogative to do that.”