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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> info=rootsaction.org@mail.salsalabs.net <info=rootsaction.org@mail.salsalabs.net> on behalf of RootsAction Team <info@rootsaction.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 8, 2016 8:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> annxpress@live.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Tell Obama to Release the Torture Report</font>
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<p style="text-align:left">Four years ago, the Senate Intelligence Committee produced a 7,000-page report that the committee chair at the time, Dianne Feinstein, calls
<b>"a total exposé of the ineffectiveness of torture."</b><br>
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It's hard enough for a 7,000-page document to go up against myths, lies, and Hollywood movies. But it's a truly unfair fight when the document is kept secret. Only a 500-page
<b>censored summary</b> was released two years ago.<br>
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Click here to tell President Obama to declassify and make public the full report.</b></a><br>
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The Obama administration possesses some copies of the report. The Senate Intelligence Committee has requested their return. The committee could choose to destroy those documents.<br>
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<b>Senator Feinstein is asking President Obama to declassify the report. <a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BeSX6WAE0MSvSRUOF1rmaMDjU2zmd8sA">
Click here to join a coalition of organizations supporting that request and planning to deliver a petition to the White House.</a></b><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uBnkRv3SxZsSE%2BKQJTJEasDjU2zmd8sA"><br>
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It matters when the rule of law is discarded and policy is driven by willfully misinformed sadism.<br>
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NPR's David Welna recently reported on this topic, saying: <i>"President-elect Trump, though, campaigned on bringing back torture which was outlawed during the Obama administration."</i><br>
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In fact, torture was outlawed by, among other laws, the Eighth Amendment, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention Against Torture (joined during the Reagan administration), and the
anti-torture and war crimes statutes in the U.S. Code (Clinton administration).<br>
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<b>Torture was a felony throughout the period of time covered by the Torture Report.
</b>President Obama forbade prosecution, although the Convention Against Torture requires it. The rule of law has suffered, but some measure of truth and reconciliation remains possible -- if we are allowed to know the truth.<br>
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<b>If we are denied the truth about torture, lies will continue to justify it, and it will continue to claim victims.</b><br>
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Partners in this effort: RootsAction.org, Code Pink, World Beyond War, Progressive Democrats of America, and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.<br>
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