In a front-page New York Times story (November 10, "Classified Report on the C.I.A.'s Secret Prisons Is Caught in Limbo") it was suggested that the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), equates access by the the Executive Branch to evidence of C.I.A. crimes with an enemy crusade. Indeed, he has succeeded, so far, in locking up--unread--in government vaults across Washington the full, classified Senate report on the Central Intelligence Agency's detention, interrogation, and torture program. It would appear that the White House is complicit in this coverup. Due to a Justice Department edict, even the government officials currently in charge of...
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