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Inquiry Begins Into Tapes’ Destruction
The Justice Department and CIA announced a joint inquiry Saturday into the spy agency’s destruction of videotapes of interrogations of two suspected terrorists.
The review will determine whether a full investigation is warranted.
AND THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF THE ARTICLE:
The decision to destroy the tapes was made by Jose Rodriguez, then the head of the CIA’s clandestine directorate of operations under CIA Director Porter Goss. Neither works at the agency today.
8 Responses to “Inquiry Begins Into Tapes’ Destruction”
Once again the left of center in the MSM get excited about a virtual non-event. I guess it is asking too much for the media to focus on policy issues such as why Congress cannot pass a budget or how the U.S. will lower carbon emission while maintain an open border, unlimited immigration de facto policy.
The obsession of the media on this issue demonstrates how far the elites are from the middle class. Does anyone sitting in traffic the Atlanta area really care about torturing AQ members versus the government’s (at any level) to deal with crime, traffic, schools, or infrastucture.
Maybe if every high school graduate could read at the 12th grade level and maybe if the foreclosure rate was at a historic low, there would be time to worry about the inside the beltway issues like this.
YES.
BTW, I could read at the 12th grade level in elementary school.
It is a big deal, superdestroyer. If the investigation ends with the members of the CIA being indicted for using torture during interrogation, at least those people sitting in traffic in the Atlanta area won’t feel ashamed of their country.
Let the fingerpointing, stonewalling and false claims of executive privilege begin!
“Does anyone sitting in traffic the Atlanta area really care about torturing AQ members ”
If they don’t care, then my hat’s off to those elites who do.
Hve we reaaly sunk so low that a traffic problem can even be in the same sentence as torture?
So could I, Holly — I was reading college-level material in third grade, for example. I bet you were and bet a number of people here were, too.
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The Democrats have to watch it, because while the rabid farther-left will push them and the partisan, not principled in the Democratic Congress will want to push things way too much (obviously becoming a political vendetta once more rather than a legitimate objection to and demand for accountability about a wrongful act), this should not be neglected by the Dems.
I was thinking earlier about how it could be used in a negative campaign commercial toward individual GOP presidential candidates or against the GOP in general. It would feature either the word “EVIDENCE” appearing followed by a red X or circle and slash over it, or show one or more dark-and-sinister-looking spy types with coats that in earlier days would have girlie magazines or illicit drugs for sale, showing the evil Republicans looking around and tossing one or more tapes (big VCR style), with “EVIDENCE” marked on the box (hand held over garbage or other device momentarily showing tape or box with “EVIDENCE” stamped on it in yellow or red, for effect and emphasis) into a wastebasket or into a device marked “SHREDDER.” (At the end of the act, they may look at each other and gloat, snicker, or shake hands, or give each other the thumbs-up sign.)
Heh, heh, heh
This is a real event, SD, just subject to hype and over-politicizing it (as so many here have already done to a substantial degree). Overdoing it may (and should) backfire against the Dems, but the GOP cannot be helped in any way, only harmed, by this.
Not too much about torture, for it’s long been known we tortured people, and so we’re not shocked or outraged by it (nor are we that way about this event with the tapes, just surprised, disappointed, and disgusted more with all that has happened associated with Iraq).
I want to warn you that Bush is trying to do something that makes him once more occasionally like a Democrat — concerning the foreclosure rate (there is no “crisis,” the subprime borrowers and lenders have nobody but themselves to blame, home prices ought to be much lower than they have become, and many of us have no problems related to these subprime shenanigans. Meanwhile, Bush is doing what the GOP often does, act as Dems Lite, with the partial bailout and five-year rate freeze on some mortgages. It is wrong, and worse: it is a MORAL HAZARD!
(from an article on this bailout)
By the way, SD, while plenty of us don’t care about the subprime loan problems (there is no “crisis” when so many of us aren’t involved and don’t care about it, as we aren’t affected), those who are affected (who face foreclosure and worry about it while stuck in Atlanta traffic, which means for hours every day) of course see foreclosure and driving in Atlanta (which I hated when I lived there; antiquated roads, too many vehicles for them, and when freely flowing, people driving far too fast and stupidly, and who are very rude and crude — run stop signs at full speed, often run red lights, lean on their horns at the slightest inconvenience, real or not) or having to defend against other drivers in Atlanta are far more important than the tape destruction, which is hardly the first misbehavior we have learned about, and about which most believe will end or change after the 2008 elections.