Dick Cheney

Always a very secretive guy, believed
in the power of the executive branch (especially
the VP part of it) and so he decides he would
like some government information about torture
released to the public to show it is helpful and necessary.

The CIA was requested by Cheney to release the info.

Oh the irony...

A C.I.A. spokesman, Paul Gimigliano, on Thursday explained that under the executive order governing classified information, documents that are the subject of pending litigation cannot be reviewed for release.

“For that reason – and that reason only – C.I.A. did not accept Mr. Cheney’s request for a mandatory declassification review,” Mr. Gimigliano said. “The agency simply followed the executive order.”