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" Let us be plain, there is no good reason -- and certainly no reason compatible with a functioning democracy -- for the CIA&amp;#039;s report on how the United States abandoned its principles and tortured people to remain classified. There&amp;#039;s no good reason -- and certainly no reason compatible with a functioning democracy - for this White House to continue to be an accessory after the fact in the crimes of the preceding administration. This, by the way, is not a good reason. So, prior to the release of any information related to the former RDI program, the Administration will also need to look at any potential security implications and take a series of steps to prepare our personnel and facilities overseas. We will do that in a timely fashion. So Senator Ron Wyden is now threatening to throw long on this issue -- utilizing an obscure prerogative to force declassification of the report if the White House continues its foot-dragging on this issue. This would be a serious confrontation with a president of his own party, and it would be one in which Wyden would be in the right. There is no point in arguing now that the release of this report would have &amp;quot;security implications&amp;quot; overseas. Of course it would. The reason for those &amp;quot;security implications&amp;quot; is that, throwing two centuries of the rule of law out the window, we tortured people, perhaps even to death. The people who ordered it, and the lawyers and politicians who enabled it, were never called to account, and likely never will be. But, at the very least, we need to know what was done in our name. To hell with what happens overseas, we need to know in this country what our government did, what atrocities our tax dollars financed, and with what crimes precisely we were all forced into complicity. There will be no prosecutions, at least not in this country. We know that now. But there will be a counting of the cost, a more accurate assessment of what we lost, what was taken from us, and what we gave away. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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