President Obama framed the release of a Senate report Tuesday detailing extreme interrogation techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency as the fulfillment of a promise made six years ago to atone for how the U.S. government handled terror suspects. For Obama, however, the issue has never been that simple. A president who immediately signed an executive order banning torture soon after entering the Oval Office later became a commander in chief who put a public accounting of CIA interrogation practices on the back burner. As the administration trumpeted a self-professed commitment to transparency, Democratic aides on Capitol Hill grumbled...
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