Senate committee votes to release CIA 'torture' report

[JURIST] The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence [official website] on Thursday voted [press release] 11-3 to submit to the White House to declassify and release a report on its findings about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] use of torture. Last week, a group of advocacy groups sent President Barack Obama [official website] a letter [text, PDF] urging him to declassify the documents. Human rights advocacy groups have been pressuring the Obama administration to declassify the documents amid...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/04/senate-committee-votes-to-release-cia-report-on-torture.php

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