Current Event of December 5, 2014
In recent news, there has been a disagreement between Obama's administration and Congress regarding the release of of a report to the American public. For a while now, the Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Dianne Feinstein, has been working on writing the statement. The report covers how the C.I.A. was found to have tortured some of their captives. Everything was going well, and the statement was planned to be released next week. However, in the final steps, just days before the public was to know the truth, John Kerry, the Secretary of State, was reported to have called Ms. Feinstein regarding the issue. The executive branch did not believe that the release of the report would be beneficial to the country as a whole. With everything that is going on in the Middle East with ISIS, Obama's administration does not want to risk getting negative publicity. Regardless, the report will still be released in the next week as planned.
Public opinion has an immense impact on the actions of a national government. When people read the report about the torture of those held captive by a division of the U.S. government, there is bound to be unrest. This is partly why Obama's administration acted the way they did by trying to prevent, or at least delay, the statement from being accessible to the public eye. Dianne Feinstein held her ground as a member of the Senate and made it so that the average American will know the truth. This is an example of how people within the same party can sometimes disagree. Ms. Feinstein, representing liberal Californians, and Obama are both Democrats. It seems that their viewpoints would be the same. But, when it comes to individual issues, such as when to release a report to the public, things are no longer as black and white as the Republican and Democratic parties.
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