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Redactions Redacted?

By John Adkins

You'll be amazed to see the difference in the amount of information redacted in the very same 2004 report issued by two different administrations, only about one year apart.  The 2004 report is Special Review of the CIA's Office of Inspector General entitled, Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities (September 2001 -- October 2003.  The side-by-side comparison was recently released by the National Security Archive.  The most frequent phrases in the release by one of the administrations is "Denied in Full" and "Page not provided."  If you're interested in the torture question, you'll also want to check out the group's The Torture Archive.  The Archive contains "more than 83,000 pages of primary source documents (and thousands more to come) related to the detention and interrogation of individuals by the United States, in connection with the conduct of hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in the broader context of the 'global war on terror.'"   The National Security Archive's website states that it is an independent non-governmental research institute and library at D.C.'s George Washington University which collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Full post as published by l r c - o r b i t ... the usd research satellite on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).