CIA torture report to arrive in every US presidential candidate's mailbox

Independent publisher Melville House is sending its edition of the CIA torture report to every candidate standing for the American presidency, in a bid to find out where the politicians “stand on torture”.

A bill banning torture was passed in the Senate on Tuesday despite opposition from 21 Republican senators, and co-founder of Melville House Dennis Johnson said that the publisher wanted to ask presidential candidates “where they stand on torture, if they’ve read the report, and where they stand on the bill passed this week, because it could be overturned by a new president”.

Melville House is posting out boxes containing five copies of The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture to all of the people who have declared their candidacy for American president in the 2016 election. “Even including Donald Trump,” said Johnson. “Even though he’s a ridiculous candidate. We will send it to him, too.”

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/18/cia-torture-report-to-arrive-in-every-us-presidential-candidates-mailbox