Classified report on CIA's secret prisons is caught in limbo

November 10, 2015 09:03

A Senate security officer stepped out of the December chill last year and delivered envelopes marked 'Top Secret' to the Pentagon, the CIA, the State Department and the Justice Department.

Inside each packet was a disc containing a 6,700-page classified report on the CIA's secret prison programme and a letter from Senator Dianne Feinstein, urging officials to read the report to ensure that the lessons were not lost to time.

Today, those discs sit untouched in vaults across Washington, still in their original envelopes.

The FBI has not retrieved a copy held for it in the Justice Department's safe.

State Department officials, who locked up their copy and marked it "Congressional Record -- Do Not Open, Do Not Access" as soon as it arrived, have not read it either.

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