The American public’s ability to read the Senate Intelligence Committee’s full, scathing report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s torture program is in danger. The Justice Department has told the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) not to classify it as a federal record. The Federal Records Act clearly defines what does and does not constitute a federal record. It states that all records “made or received by an agency of the United States government under federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business" are federal records. The Senate’s torture report was an attempt to right grievous wrong, But now agency politics may bury all the good and necessary work that the Senate Intelligence Committee did.
This is a public record!



