“The Obama administration and the Senate Intelligence Committee are sparring over the administration’s deletions of fake names from the public version of a long-awaited report on the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation methods on suspected terrorists, McClatchy has learned.

The outcome of the debate could impact the clarity and narrative flow of the report, the product of the most intensive congressional investigation of CIA operations since lawmakers examined the agency’s role in the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal of the Reagan presidency.

“Redactions are supposed to remove names or anything that could compromise sources and methods, not to undermine the source material so that it is impossible to understand,” Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., a member of the committee, said Sunday in a statement. “Try reading a novel with 15 percent of the words blacked out. It can’t be done properly.””* The Young Turks hosts Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), and Michael Shure break it down.

*Read more here from Jonathan S. Landay and Michael Doyle / McClatchy DC:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/08/04/235402/obama-officials-senate-intelligence.html