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Newsweek

05/30/09

The honeymoon between CIA director Leon Panetta and veterans of the agency’s undercover division — the National Clandestine Service — may be coming to an end. The dispute concerns how much access congressional investigators should be given to ultraclassified CIA ‘operational traffic’ regarding the agency’s post-9/11 use of ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques on suspected terrorists, some of which President Obama and many others have called torture. ‘Operational traffic’ refers to cables from the field to CIA headquarters, and they go well beyond the intelligence reports routinely provided to Congress, chronicling in exacting, minute-by-minute detail who did what to whom, and how detainees responded to particular questions and techniques. Panetta favors greater disclosure...

http://www.newsweek.com/id/200074


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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