An appeals court ruled on Friday that more than 6,000 pages of the so-called Senate torture report cannot be made public because they consist of congressional records that are not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, which only covers federal agencies.
The unanimous ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Washington made clear that records that Congress shares with federal agencies can’t be disclosed if there’s a “clear intent” by lawmakers “to control the document.”
The decision dealt a major blow to the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued the CIA and other federal agencies that saw the full report ahead of the Senate’s release of a much shorter executive summary in 2014.
Continue reading: American Public Is Not Entitled To See Full Senate Torture Report, Court Rules
Commentary by The Secular Jurist: In other words, the D.C. court told the American people:
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“Torture report”? I believe if they asked to see the “enhanced interrogation technique” report the result may have been different. There can’t be anything in a “torture report” anyway. The U.S. doesn’t torture people. 🙂
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Of course, and the U.S. never enslaved West Africans, never committed genocide against Native Americans, never waged imperialistic wars of aggression, never illegally interned Japanese Americans outside of Hawaii, never engaged in military coups to overthrow democratic governments overseas, never performed assassinations, never wielded a corporatist police state against domestic exercises of free speech (e.g. Occupy Wall Street), and never ever did anything immoral or unethical.
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Correct. You get 5 points for being a true American. 🙂
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Conspiracy hats guys, otherwise they can hear you through the microphones in your teeth!
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Not when you cover your teeth in aluminum like I do!
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Ahh you wised up to their games… well don’t let them know, I hope your hidden behind 19 proxies and a public terminal
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I’m hidden behind a public urinal and two Catholic nuns. Go figure.
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Are the nuns hot?
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Damn right they are. I’d hide behind no other kind. Gotta run. My Illuminati meeting’s about to start.
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That should be safe enough!
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I know, right? This combined with the aluminum on my teeth should keep me completely safe from any government surveillance drones.
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Demanding the whole truth from the government which ostensibly represents us requires no conspiracy.
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Yeah, that’s the one *winks*
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I’m not winking.
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I am. An eyelash fell into my eye. Must be a conspiracy. What’s the conspiracy that’s supposedly connected to this post? That the government won’t release documents detailing the torture used against prisoners by the CIA? The real conspiracy is the fact Obama is a shape shifting lizard who’s about to open a portal to another dimension which will engulf our world and turn us all into fish people.
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There is NO CONSPIRACY connected to this post! I said it before, and I’ll say it again:
FACT #1 – The government IS withholding information on torture from the American public.
FACT #2 – Many Americans WANT to see that information.
What is it that you don’t understand about these facts?
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Whoa! I didn’t say there’s a conspiracy involved here. I’m making snide remarks to the contrary. I’m questioning how any reasonable person would or could see such a thing. I meant to question “Sixeighty”, not you, my friend. I’m curious as to what HE is getting at by referring to you and myself as “conspiracy hat” wearers because we’re stating how wrong the government is to suppress this info. If someone sees a conspiracy here, I’ve absolutely no clue as to hat it is they’re seeing.
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Sorry, I misunderstood. I don’t know what “Sixeighty” was getting at either.
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It is just so disgusting isn’t it. Congressional records aren’t subject to The Freedom of Information Act? I mean, come on, congress has our very best criminals.
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Indeed.
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It wouldn’t matter anyway. Americans can handle the truth if it comes from Hollywood, CNN, Fox News, TSN and almost any billionaire televangelist. Other than that, there is no truth.
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Truth always matters, and it exists whether we humans recognize it or not.
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