CIA Rejects Cheney Request For Torture Results Memos

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May 14 2009, 2:20 pm by Marc Ambinder

CIA Rejects Cheney Request For Torture Results Memos

The Central Intelligence Agency won't release memorandum that former Vice President Dick Cheney claims prove that the torture techniques applied by CIA interrogators provided valuable intelligence. The reason, according to an agency spokesman, is that the memos are the subject of pending litigation -- the litigation itself is unspecified -- and therefore, by statute, can't be disclosed until the litigation process is completed. Interesting note: the CIA doesn't say that they're not declassifying the memos because of national security reasons. They're giving themselves a technical out here. Cheney can ask President Obama to override the CIA's decision.

Comments (1)

AlchemyToday May 14, 2009 2:52 PM

It doesn't really matter; there's a 99.9999% chance that it's just a repetition of the same story that Cheney, Hayden, et al have been repeating for months... that AZ's torture led to X, Y, and Z that directly prevented the attack on LA... and that's disputed by every source who's ass isn't potentially on the line for torture charges. It actually benefits Cheney not to release it; he can keep repeating the same story and make it seem like there's more out there in these unreleased reports, and that Obama's complicit in denying the efficacy of torture.