Justice Dept. Blocks House Inquiry into CIA Torture Tapes | Talking Points Memo

Only two days after the House intelligence committee inaugurated its inquiry into the CIA’s torture tapes by hosting CIA Director Mike Hayden on Wednesday, the Justice Department instructed key CIA officials not to cooperate. The panel’s leaders, Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) and Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), vowed not to back off in a just-released joint statement:


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