The re-release of a May 2004 internal CIA report on the agency’s secret detention and interrogation program was again delayed this afternoon, CNN reports.
The document has been requested by the ACLU as part of its ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. It is a report regarding then CIA inspector general John L. Helgerson’s May 2004 review of the agency’s program.
A version of the report was released by the Bush administration in 2008, but was so heavily censored that its re-release has been requested. It is widely believed that the released document will contain a critical analysis of the effectiveness of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’.
Considering former Vice President Dick Cheney’s statements on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ that these practices ‘saved thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives’ many hope to use the analysis as proof – from sources inside the CIA itself – that the tactics used were both illegal and ineffective.
Time will tell.