Today, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein released an astonishing statement on her committee’s investigation into torture by the CIA – and the intelligence agency’s shocking, and possibly illegal, activities to spy on the committee itself. A bit of important background: The investigation into the CIA’s “enhanced techniques” of interrogation – doublespeak for torture – began late last decade, after it was revealed that video tapes of the CIA’s torture sessions had been destroyed, over the objection of George W. Bush’s White House Counsel and the Director of National Intelligence. In lieu of the destroyed video evidence, the CIA […]

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