Senator warns torture report could be destroyed under Trump

Senator Ron Wyden, a member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, has called on President Obama to protect the Committee’s report on the CIA torture programme.

Senator Wyden said that Obama could prevent the document from being destroyed under the new administration by declaring it a federal record, reports the Huffington Post.

Something Obama “can do today on this”, Wyden said, is “make sure the report isn’t destroyed and lost to history”.

“All that the president needs to do is direct that the report be a federal record under the Federal Records Act, and an agency record pursuant to [the Freedom of Information Act], and then it can be disseminated widely to appropriate, cleared agencies”.

A redacted version of the report’s executive summary has been published, but the full text remains classified.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee, has publicly called on Obama to declassify the report before he leaves office.

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