NOW WE KNOW WHAT'S BEING DONE IN OUR NAME By Charles P. Pierce on April 11, 2014

[David Morris]

Try this link and then find the article link inside:

http://www.esquire.com/politics/<http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/politics/>

On Saturday, April 12, 2014, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

> The article must be good. It freezes up about the 5th paragraph, so I
> can't read the whole thing.
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> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:19 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
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>> http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/cia-torture-report-leak-041114
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>> *Asked to comment on the findings, CIA spokesman Dean Boyd said: "Given
>> the report remains classified, we are unable to comment. As we have stated
>> previously, the CIA, in consultation with other agencies, will carry out an
>> expeditious classification review of those portions of the final SSCI
>> report submitted to the executive branch for review." Senate Intelligence
>> Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein also declined to comment except to
>> say: "If someone distributed any part of this classified report, they broke
>> the law and should be prosecuted."*
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>> This is the debate that started with Edward Snowden, International Man Of
>> Luggage. It's far beyond him now. What is more important -- for the
>> government to keep its secrets or for the people to know what they need to
>> know to govern themselves, and , about what was done in their name, and who
>> makes the decision about where the "balance" lies. It cannot lie with the
>> people who committed the crimes, not in this democracy.
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