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In an interview with Democracy Now!, Scott Horton, a human
rights attorney and author of "Lords of Secrecy: The National Security
Elite and America’s Stealth Foreign Policy," touched on the debate over
national security and secrecy. He agreed with the comments of outgoing
Democratic Senator Mark Udall, who accused the CIA of lying and that
officials of the agency who approved or committed acts related to the
detention and interrogation program are in positions of power. "People
who were involved in this torture and black sites program rose
absolutely to the top of the agency," Horton told Amy Goodman, "and
they’re still there. And that’s shocking. I think had the public known,
or had even most of the senior leadership in Washington known, what they
did and their mistakes, they never could have achieved these positions.
So, I think it’s obviously the case that there should be a review of
the senior echelons of the agency to remove those who made serious
errors and who broke the law." As for the recent news of nine Pakistanis
who were killed in a U.S. drone strike, Horton said that the CIA is
being given more leeway in waging covert war: "Now it’s focused very
heavily on operations, and many of them sustained, like this drone war,
which is a 10-year war."
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