Frankly, I am not enough up to speed on this week's developments to be able to say much about how
this advances the story but I'm told that it does and just seeing Jonathan Landay's by-line seems like a good indicator. Excerpt:
The White House has been withholding for five years more than 9,000
top-secret documents sought by the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence for its investigation into the now-defunct CIA detention
and interrogation program, even though President Barack Obama hasn’t
exercised a claim of executive privilege.
In contrast to public
assertions that it supports the committee’s work, the White House has
ignored or rejected offers in multiple meetings and in letters to find
ways for the committee to review the records, a McClatchy investigation
has found.
The significance of the materials couldn’t be learned.
But the administration’s refusal to turn them over or to agree to any
compromise raises questions about what they would reveal about the CIA’s
use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on
suspected terrorists in secret overseas prisons.
The dispute
indicates that the White House is more involved than it has acknowledged
in the unprecedented power struggle between the committee and the CIA,
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