[GPSCC-chat] Ask Mark Udall to release the "Torture Report" of the Senate Intelligence Committee

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


       In the email below, DemandProgress.org is asking people to add 
their names to a petition asking Mark Udall (the outgoing senator from 
Colorado) to release of the "Torture Report", which is being held seven 
months after the Senate Intelligence Committee voted overwhelmingly to 
release it, because of opposition from the White House.  Members of 
Congress have an absolute right to free speech, and Mark Udall is 
considering using that right to release that report before he leaves the 
senate.


       The email below asks everyone to add their names to their 
petition at " 
http://act.demandprogress.org/go/1403?t=1001&akid=2801.2399510.VFrnPR". 
This is being sponsored by Demand Progress, which was founded by Aaron 
Schwartz and was instrumental in blocking SOPA and PIPA in 2011-2012.


       Thanks,
       Spencer Graves


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Subject: 	Leak
Date: 	Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:17:59 +0000
From: 	David Segal, DemandProgress.org <info at demandprogress.org>
Reply-To: 	David Segal, DemandProgress.org <info at demandprogress.org>
To: 	Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org>



       Spencer-

    The Senate Intelligence Committee's "torture report" is expected to detail
    shocking abuse of prisoners at the hands of the CIA during the Bush
    administration, and even possible CIA lies to Congress to cover it up.
     Unsurprisingly, the CIA is trying to prevent much of the report from
    seeing light of day.

    [1]But we can help compel its release -- click here to help make it
    happen.

    As we understand it, the report of course covers waterboarding and other
    torture that's euphemistically been called "enhanced interrogation", but
    also makes it clear that the CIA engaged in even more grotesque,
    unreported acts as well.  All in our names.

    But seven months after the Senate Intelligence Committee voted
    overwhelmingly to release the report to the American people, the White
    House is stonewalling Congress and demanding "redactions"--blacked-out
    sections that make the report unintelligible--before making its contents
    public.

    [2]But one courageous senator is considering releasing the report anyway
    -- please click here to urge him to do so.

    We have a real chance to have the report released before the end of the
    year, when Senator Mark Udall leaves office.

    Here's how: Members of Congress have an absolute right to free speech, and
    a member could release the report in its entirety without fear of
    prosecution.

    This is just as the Pentagon Papers, disclosing lies that underpinned our
    involvement in Vietnam, were released in 1971.

    That's exactly what transparency advocates are calling on the outgoing,
    staunchly anti-torture and pro-transparency Senator Udall to do -- and
    he's made it clear that he's actively considering doing so.

    This is would be a courageous act that would incur the ire of very
    powerful interests -- so we need to make sure that Udall knows countless
    people will support him if he chooses to move forward.

    [3]Click here to tell Mark Udall to be our hero and stand strong against
    torture: Please release the report before you leave office.

    We have a real chance to make history -- and hold the Bush administration
    and the CIA's torturers accountable.  Let's get it done.

    -Demand Progress

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