Bush CIA Officers May Have Lied About Permission To Destroy Interrogation Torture Tapes
Why would anyone destroy these terror tapes? What reason would anyone have to destroy these? There is only one reason and that is to hide the truth about the horrible war crimes the Bush Administration authorized. How else can anyone explain the decision to destroy evidence in such an obvious crime? Not only is it inexcusable to torture innocent people it is as bad to then destroy or cover up evidence of the crimes committed.
George Bush knew these atrocities were illegal. George Bush and Dick Cheney put together the team of lawyers and other so called “experts” who designed the war on terror and the waterboarding interrogation techniques which have resulted in questionable results at best.
Newly released internal CIA documents seem to show then-Director Porter Goss laughing when told he’ll take the heat for the destruction of detainee interrogation videotapes, including tapes showing the waterboarding of top al Qaeda prisoner Abu Zubaydah.
Top interrogation officials’ “waterboarding expertise” was “misrepresented.”More Photos
But according to a former CIA official familiar with the meeting where the destruction of tapes was discussed, Goss was angry over not being informed until after the tapes had been destroyed. Goss had not approved the decision and was “beside himself” when he learned of the destruction, according to three former senior intelligence officials.
More than 100 pages of internal CIA documents released late Thursday show confusion in the upper ranks of the CIA about the destruction of scores of detainee interrogation videotapes in late 2005.
The documents and emails reveal the CIA at odds over who ordered the destruction of the videotapes and that several Agency and White House officials were “livid” over the tapes’ destruction.
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