Senator Richard Burr: a Longtime Fan of Torture

By Ray McGovern, August 11, 2018
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/08/11/senator-richard-burr-a-longtime-fan-of-torture/

Curious: Not a word of this story appeared in Ray’s home-delivered Washington Post on either August 10 or 11, even though a good report by the Post’s Karen deYoung appeared on the 10th in the Post online.  DeYoung’s online article was titled:
Torture of al-Qaeda suspect described in 2002 cables sent by CIA Director Gina Haspel.

( See:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/torture-of-al-qaeda-suspect-described-in-2002-cables-sent-by-cia-director-gina-haspel/2018/08/09/dfd79b5a-9c21-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html?utm_term=.2f64afbdd18e )

The NY Times, for its part, carried a long report by Julian E. Barnes and Scott Shane in both print and online editions on August 10:

( See:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/us/politics/waterboarding-gina-haspel-cia-prison.html )

The NYT online article was titled: Cables Detail C.I.A. Waterboarding at Secret Prison Run by Gina Haspel.  That headline was adjusted a bit for the print version (page A8 of the New York edition).  The print title was: “Cables Detail Torture at Prison Run by Current C.I.A. Chief.”