By Ryan Grim
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.)
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Source: The Intercept
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