THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

December 9, 2016

The Honorable Dianne Feinstein
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Vice Chairman einstein:

Thank you very much for your letter to the President dated November 22, 2016, and your
letter to the Vice President dated May 11, 2016 regarding the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence?s full Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency?s Detention
and Interrogation Program.

I write to notify you that the full Study will be preserved under the Presidential Records
Act (PRA). The determination that the Study will be preserved under the PRA has no
bearing on c0pies of the Study currently stored at various agencies.

Consistent with the authority afforded to him by the PRA, the President has informed the
Archivist that access to classified material, among other categories of information, should
be restricted for the full twelve years allowed under the Act. At this time, we are not
pursuing declassi?cation of the full Study.

Thank you very much for your letters on this important issue. I have sent a similar letter
to Chairman Burr.

Sincerely,

law/LC Hg

W. Neil Eggleston
Counsel to the President

cc: The Honorable Ron Wyden
The Honorable Barbara Mikulski
The Honorable Mark Warner
The Honorable Martin Heinrich
The Honorable Angus King
The Honorable Mazie Hirono