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ACLU Files Suit To Stop GOP From Repossessing And Burying Torture Report (Picture)
The ACLU filed an emergency motion with a federal judge to stop the new GOP chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee from repossessing the full-length version of a revealing inquiry into CIA torture.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) has requested the White House and various executive agencies “immediately” return copies of the 6,700-page report, which Burr says was inappropriately transmitted by his predecessor, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Feinstein disputes that characterization.
The ACLU and other human rights groups charge that Burr’s request is an attempt to keep the findings of the report under wraps permanently. As Politico points out: “Who maintains legal control of the report could be critical to whether and when it is made public.”
“If Defendants transfer the report to Senator Burr, the ACLU faces the real threat of never securing the release of a document to which it is entitled by law,” ACLU lawyers wrote in the emergency motion (pdf) filed late Tuesday in connection with a pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. MOREHERE
