Trump administration moves to keep full CIA ‘torture’ report secret
By Reuters
03 June 2017 |
5:41 am
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has begun returning to Congress copies of a voluminous 2014 report describing the CIA's harsh detention and interrogation programs, U.S. officials said on Friday.
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