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I’m Sure There’s An Innocent Explanation

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The Senate Intelligence Committee is trying to make sure as few people see damning evidence of Gina Haspel’s advocacy for torture and obstruction of justice as possible:

As the Senate prepares for a Wednesday vote on whether to confirm Gina Haspel as director of the CIA, the Senate Intelligence Committee has restricted access to a classified memo that Democratic staff put together, detailing Haspel’s role in advocating for torture and later destroying related evidence.

On Monday morning, Elizabeth Falcone, a senior aide for Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top-ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee, announced the decision to restrict access in an email to Democratic legislative directors. The memo had previously been available for senators and staff with security clearances to review in a Secure Compartmented Information Facility housed within Congress. Staff will no longer be able to review the document, and senators will only be able to do so upon request. It has been removed from the SCIF.

In Falcone’s email, which a Senate source shared with The Intercept, she said that the memo was “unable to be viewed.” (Over the weekend, both The Intercept and NBC News inquired about the existence of the memo, and NBC reported Monday afternoon that it had been removed from the Senate’s secure space.)

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence!

Last week, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said, “I have never in my life wished that more classified information could be available to the public,” after reviewing classified documents about Haspel.

Well, you can hardly trust the judgment of a wild-eyed Trotskyite like McCaskill. It would be nice if Manchin and Donnelly had her moral compass.

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., one of the few Republicans yet to commit to supporting Haspel, has called for the contents of the Durham report, an extensive report on which the classified memo is partly based, to be made available to senators.

Flake, unlike Donnelly and Manchin, isn’t up for re-election, and makes a lot of anti-Trump noises. He could do the right thing. But hahahahaha that ain’t happening. (I mean, it’s not easy to be the biggest fraud among allegedly mavericky Arizona Republican senators, but he’s almost certain to leave office behind decisively.)

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