Comments on: CIA Torture Tapes Destruction Scandal: House Intel Committee In the Hot Seat

By: Annuity123

Annuity123 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:42:23 +0000

I especially like the maxim that perfectly describes the secrecy policy: “the greater the abuse, the more important it is that it should remain secret.

By: DLS

DLS — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:38:44 +0000

“There was a suspicious fire in the VP's office last week, and there's alot of speculation about what burned up.”

Even the Kremlin never did that — is that true? With the Clintons it was just a rifling of each office (on numerous occasions), no “accidental” fires (or was that just a late Christmas present to Cheney from the Sierra Club?).

By: kritt11

kritt11 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:45:09 +0000

The administration has destroyed so much evidence that even a full-out investigation probably wouldn't reveal much. We have to just accept that no one will be held accountable. There was a suspicious fire in the VP's office last week, and there's alot of speculation about what burned up. Then there's the admission that millions of e-mails were permanently lost when the drives were taped over.

Cheney lived through Watergate, and so knows where to bury the bodies so they'll never be found.

By: DLS

DLS — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:32:32 +0000

The Congressional Democrats who would attempt any investigation and hearing (circus) already have tainted themselves. We know well, too, the truth about what those anti-torture people would love to do with anyone they could get in the hot seat in Shaun's picture:

SLAP! WHAM! “That — was an accident. And if you don't want it to happen again, YOUBETTERTELLUSWHATWEWANNAHEAR!” SLAP!

By: GreenDreams

GreenDreams — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:02:30 +0000

It's well past time for a no-holds-barred investigation of this administration by Congress. Let's make that clear to our representatives.

By: Rudi

Rudi — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:27:47 +0000

This administration seems to have no shame. On top of the CIA tapes, their doing a Rose Mary Woods on email backup tapes.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=9493
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsG0My2Q3Eu9...

White House Reused E-Mail Tapes

By PETE YOST – 22 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages — including those pertaining to the CIA leak case — have been taped over and are gone forever.

The disclosure came minutes before midnight Tuesday under a court-ordered deadline that forced the White House to reveal information it has previously refused to provide.

Among the e-mails that could be lost are messages swapped by any White House officials involved in discussions about leaking a CIA officer's identity to reporters.

Before October 2003, the White House recycled its backup tapes "consistent with industry best practices," according to a sworn statement by a White House aide.

Backup tapes are the last line of defense for saving electronic records.

Separately, the statement reveals the extent to which the White House is apparently unable to answer how many e-mails are missing from White House servers.

The White House "does not know if any e-mails were not properly preserved in the archiving process,"