Days after U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) took the helm as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee early this year, he moved to bury his committee’s 6,900-page report on the CIA torture program. In his first major act as the nation’s top watchdog over the spy agency, Burr chose to protect the CIA by demanding…
Senator Burr: More Concerned About President George W. Bush’s Legacy than National Security?
A letter from North Carolina Stop Torture Now coordinator Christina Cowger in the Jan. 23 edition of The Washington Post questions Senator Burr’s respect for his own constituents. Other national media reporting casts doubt on his fitness to lead the committee charged with overseeing the CIA. Even commentators with the unabashedly conservative Fox News outlet…
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