: re: Dark Again After Report on C.I.A. Torture

From: barry levine 
Date: Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 8:48 AM
Subject: re: Dark Again After Report on C.I.A. Torture
To: "letters@nytimes.com" 

To the Editor:

   It is within president Obama's power to declassify the entire Torture Report, not just the Executive Summary. Indeed, the American People have paid for that report and for the conduct on which it reports. The Summary cannot suffice; if this Congress were to offer such a summary of the U.S. Constitution it might well quote "Congress shall make no Law", redacting away what some of us consider the important bits.

    President Obama has an opportunity here. Now that it is revealed that the C.I.A. had deceived him, he could shed his mistaken pledge to "look forward and not backwards" and put that Torture Report (with small redactions to protect ongoing operations and the innocent) up on the White House website this week. But if he prefers to continue the cover-up of these crimes, he will make them his own.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/opinion/after-report-on-cia-torture-no-more-disclosure.html?ref=opinion&_r=0