Now the new Republican chairman of the committee plans to return the Panetta review to the CIA, burying the issue for good.
Several Democratic members of the Intelligence Committee publicly opposed Burr's actions. Feinstein issued a statement January 20 saying, "I strongly disagree that the administration should relinquish copies of the full committee study, which contains far more detailed records than the public executive summary."
Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon said returning the document would "aid defenders of torture who are seeking to cover up the facts and rewrite the historical record."
However, these Democrats all accepted the countless redactions demanded by the CIA in the executive summary, with the support of the White House, and have rubber-stamped Obama's decision that neither the CIA torturers nor the White House and Justice Department officials who approved the torture program would be prosecuted.
Feinstein, Wyden & Co. agreed from the very beginning to focus the investigation solely on the CIA itself, and leave out President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and other top officials who ordered and sanctioned torture and created the spurious legal rationales for it.
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