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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. <br>
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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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