{"id":48859,"date":"2014-12-10T22:53:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T05:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/mark-udall-breaks-some-additional-torture-information.html"},"modified":"2014-12-12T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:06:15","slug":"mark-udall-breaks-some-additional-torture-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/mark-udall-breaks-some-additional-torture-information.html","title":{"rendered":"Mark Udall breaks some additional torture information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Udall (D-CO) has been one of the loudest advocates for years on releasing information about intelligence agency abuses, both in this context and regarding surveillance activities, lambasting both the Bush and Obama administrations for their actions. He continued that today, discussing how the Senate report released yesterday is supported by an internal CIA review (still classified), and providing additional details.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Udall won&#39;t be around next session to continue this good work, even in the minority. He was defeated for reelection by (sigh) Cory Gardner, who suggested during the election that discussion of releasing the Senate report was just an attempt to &quot;politicize&quot; it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/politics\/ci_27108319\/udall-blasts-obama-breaking-word-cia-torture-disclosures'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/uLfGbaIY9zh3WwXWxvxD5t4jVNbJqC1-62pFIQTa51k0jjv04GWeCMTaYdb2mahGtlwrCc1DyZ-3zjyVnDFgzU7D55lRqgpa-Q9It-J-Va3jZe7uQlaQBspawpa9X__BfCyDhSYoddB8zEdgT221hNRZ6LGnE7hu1kw=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/politics\/ci_27108319\/udall-blasts-obama-breaking-word-cia-torture-disclosures'>Udall blasts Obama for breaking word on CIA torture disclosures<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nColorado Sen. Mark Udall blasted President Obama on Wednesday for breaking his promise to shine light on what Udall has dubbed a &#8220;dark chapter of our hist\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/H5dnXTTwVTE'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Udall (D-CO) has been one of the loudest advocates for years on releasing information about intelligence agency abuses, both in this context and regarding surveillance activities, lambasting both the Bush and Obama administrations for their actions. He continued that today, discussing how the Senate report released yesterday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/mark-udall-breaks-some-additional-torture-information.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mark Udall breaks some additional torture information&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,353,17,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2014","category-homeland-security","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46769,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/05\/the-fight-against-secrets-lost-a-key-fighter-last-night.html","url_meta":{"origin":48859,"position":0},"title":"The fight against secrets lost a key fighter last night","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Nov-14 5:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While Mark Udall's name came up in the news the last several years because of his being a US Senator for my state, where I often also ran across him was dealing with the NSA, CIA, and other \"too many secrets\" organizations, in his role on the Senate Intelligence Community.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39283,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/meanwhile-back-at-the-cia.html","url_meta":{"origin":48859,"position":1},"title":"Meanwhile, back at the CIA","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Oct-13 10:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While taking pot shots at pols is easy and fun, I have to say that one of my senators, Mark Udall (mentioned here more than once), has been doing a heck of a job vs. intelligence community shell games and their declarations of sacrosanct secrecy. 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