The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted 11 – 3 Thursday to declassify parts of a secret report on Bush-era interrogations of terrorism suspects. “The purpose of this review was to uncover the facts behind this secret program, and the results were shocking. The report exposes brutality that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation.activityi;src=4216356;type=pagev382;cat=aljaz682;u1=articles;ord=1278406701284 
It chronicles a stain on our history that must never again be allowed to happen,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D‑Calif., chairwoman of the committee, said in a statement. “This is not what Americans do.” Now that the 15-member panel votes has approved the declassification of a 400-page summary and the key findings of its report, the onus is on the Central Intelligence Agency and a reluctant White House to speed the release of one of the most definitive accounts about the government’s actions after the 9⁄11 attacks. The CIA will now start scanning the report’s contents for any passages that compromise national security. That has led to fears that the CIA, already accused of illegally monitoring the Senate’s investigation and deleting files, could sanitize key elements of what Senate investigators aim to be the fullest public reckoning of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used on Al-Qaeda suspects in CIA-run prisons abroad. Feinstein has urged the White House to get involved. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/3/senate-torture-reportciadeclassify.html
