MOSCOW, July 28 (RIA Novosti) - A number of former CIA officials listed in a classified report on controversial interrogation and detention practices employed by the CIA after the attacks of 9/11, were denied a chance to view the document before it is made public, The Associated Press reported.
According to AP, the former CIA employees were told that they would be able to read the report in a secure room in suburban Washington after signing a secrecy agreement. But last Friday CIA officials contacted some of them to announce that there has been a miscommunication and only former CIA directors and deputy directors will get a chance to see it before its release.
“I am outraged. They are accusing people of misleading Congress, of misleading the Justice Department, and they never even asked to talk to us. And now they won’t let us read the report before it is made public,” AP quoted former CIA employee John Rizzo as saying. He was among those who were denied access to the document.
The document at stake is a 600-page summary of a 6,300-page classified report analyzing the CIA’s practices of interrogation and detention, including sleep deprivation and water boarding. These methods were believed to be widely employed during the administration of President George W. Bush.
US President Barack Obama reportedly put an end to this practices when he took office.
AP quoted on condition of anonymity individuals familiar with the full report, as saying that the document “shows that the CIA interrogation program was far more brutal than previously understood and that CIA officials repeatedly misled Congress and the Justice Department about what was being done to al-Qaeda detainees.”
No official date for the release of the report has been set, but according to the sources from online news website The Daily Beast, it will go public in “very early August.”
