On Jan. 18, 2019, the News & Observer published a powerful call for torture accountability by Tommy Ross, former aide to Rep. David Price (D-NC) and then to former Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV). In it, Ross voices dismay about the “culture of secrecy in both the federal and state governments, and troubling tendencies to flout the law and cover tracks with lies or stonewalling.”
Ross goes on to urge Sen. Richard Burr to declassify the Senate’s full report on post-9/11 U.S. torture. He says, “Similarly, North Carolina’s leaders should acknowledge the copious evidence of the state’s involuntary role in torture, and begin an investigation of specific, well-documented cases.”
Read the full op-ed here. Download the op-ed for printing here.