bogeyman
10th November 2014, 03:54
While most lame-duck politicians can’t accomplish anything in the last days of their term, Colorado Democratic Sen. Mark Udall is being encouraged to go out in a blaze of glory on one of his signature issues — intelligence.
Activists are pressuring Udall, who returns to Washington next week to finish his term before handing his office to Republican Cory Gardner, to leak a Senate Intelligence Committee’s 6,300-page report on CIA torture practices that has only come out in a heavily redacted summary form.
Those who are pushing him say there’s no reason for him not to — when his term ends, he’ll be leaving the committee anyway, and as a sitting member of Congress, he has immunity from prosecution for leaking classified material.
http://www.governmentsecrets.com/lame-duck-sen-udall-pressured-leak-cia-report-final-act-office/?utm_source=emailcampaign24&utm_medium=phpList&utm_content=HTMLemail&utm_campaign=The+Black+Vault%3A+Weekly+News+Headlines#
Activists are pressuring Udall, who returns to Washington next week to finish his term before handing his office to Republican Cory Gardner, to leak a Senate Intelligence Committee’s 6,300-page report on CIA torture practices that has only come out in a heavily redacted summary form.
Those who are pushing him say there’s no reason for him not to — when his term ends, he’ll be leaving the committee anyway, and as a sitting member of Congress, he has immunity from prosecution for leaking classified material.
http://www.governmentsecrets.com/lame-duck-sen-udall-pressured-leak-cia-report-final-act-office/?utm_source=emailcampaign24&utm_medium=phpList&utm_content=HTMLemail&utm_campaign=The+Black+Vault%3A+Weekly+News+Headlines#