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Senate Report on CIA Torture is one Step Closer to Disappearing:
The CIA inspector general’s office — the spy agency’s internal watchdog — has acknowledged it “mistakenly” destroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate torture report at the same time lawyers for the Justice Department were assuring a federal judge that copies of the document were being preserved, Yahoo News has learned.
While another copy of the report exists elsewhere at the CIA, the erasure of the controversial document by the office charged with policing agency conduct has alarmed the U.S. senator who oversaw the torture investigation and reignited a behind-the-scenes battle over whether the full unabridged report should ever be released, according to multiple intelligence community sources familiar with the incident.
The deletion of the document has been portrayed by agency officials to Senate investigators as an “inadvertent” foul-up by the inspector general. In what one intelligence community source described as a series of errors straight “out of the Keystone Cops,” CIA inspector general officials deleted an uploaded computer file with the report and then accidentally destroyed a disk that also contained the document, filled with thousands of secret files about the CIA’s use of “enhanced” interrogation methods.
[...] The 6,700-page report, the product of years of work by the Senate Intelligence Committee, contains meticulous details, including original CIA cables and memos, on the agency’s use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other aggressive interrogation methods at “black site” prisons overseas. A 500-page executive summary was released in December 2014 by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the committee’s outgoing chair. It concluded that the CIA’s interrogations were far more brutal than the agency had publicly acknowledged and produced often unreliable intelligence. The findings drew sharp dissents from Republicans on the panel and from four former CIA directors.
But the full three-volume report, which formed the basis for the executive summary, has never been released. In light of a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling last week that the document is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, there are new questions about whether it will ever be made public, or even be preserved.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 16 2018, @11:23AM (2 children)
After losing all the director's porn, I expect he is.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday November 16 2018, @10:47PM (1 child)
True story, a MSCE buddy of mine, who is quite a character, was directed to fix a high level c-suites workstation. Got into it and the problem was a lack of disk space and Windows grinding down to low performance because of it. Checked a few folders, and 60%+ of all the data was just porn. My buddy deleted it :)
That c-suite was so fucking pissed off I could hear the yelling down the hall when I was coming to meet my buddy for lunch. Nothing happened of course, because how do you justify firing somebody because they lost your porn?
Ohhh, MSCE doesn't mean jack shit like you imply :) Even according to my buddy. During the classes they never, not once, touched a command line. Zero instruction regarding the command line tools you could use to administrate a system. Pure GUI instruction, and it left out a large number of core concepts. That was the primary reason at the time I decided to not spend $10k+ to get certification when I already knew more than what the class was going to teach me.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 17 2018, @09:43PM
You got the implication backwards.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.