Obama administration turns down Cheney declassification request.
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 15th, 2009 4:32 am by HL
Obama administration turns down Cheney declassification request.
Last month, former Vice President Dick Cheney revealed that he had requested the release of CIA documents supposedly showing that the Bush administration’s torture program produced valuable intelligence and protected the U.S. against terrorist attacks. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) responded yesterday, saying, “Nothing I have seen — including the two documents to which former […]
Last month, former Vice President Dick Cheney revealed that he had requested the release of CIA documents supposedly showing that the Bush administration’s torture program produced valuable intelligence and protected the U.S. against terrorist attacks. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) responded yesterday, saying, “Nothing I have seen — including the two documents to which former Vice President Cheney has repeatedly referred — indicates that the torture techniques…were necessary.” Now, in a letter to the National Archives, CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator Delores M. Nelson, “rejected Cheney’s request because the documents he has requested are involved in a Freedom of Information Act court battle.” Read more of Nelson’s letter here.
