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KoKo

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13. "No Question" CIA Attempted "to Impede Our Investigation" Article with CNN Video
Thu Jul 25, 2013, 06:20 PM
Jul 2013

Check this out...I've got broccoli to cook...there is a CNN Video at the Link...I couldn't get it to embed here but it works at the site.

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9/11 Commission Chair: "No Question" CIA Attempted "to Impede Our Investigation"

Tom Kean says, "I mean, no question that we again and again and again asked for everything, and we needed it, and we weren't given it."

In its attempts to uncover all materials related to the 9/11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission specifically requested material about the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The New York Times has revealed that the CIA destroyed tapes of the two men's interrogation without informing the 9/11 Commission about their existence.

On Saturday, former CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin told CNN:

,I think it's ludicrous to suggest, in fact, that we withheld anything of consequence from the 9/11 Commission. Anything that was on the tapes that would be relevant to their inquiry was given to them in writing, and the tapes would have simply not advanced their inquiry at all.

In fact, the tapes were highly relevant to the Commission's inquiry. Philip Zelikow -- the former staff director of the 9/11 Commission -- explained: "The Commission was not investigating the treatment of captives. But it did seek information not only about the 9/11 plot, but also any intelligence information about the history and evolution of al Qaeda and its connections to other terrorist entities. Therefore, from the start, the Commission sought to obtain all relevant information gleaned from the interrogation of captives."

This morning on CNN, 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean there is "no question" the CIA was aware that its now-destroyed videotapes depicting severe interrogations were among evidence being sought by 9/11 Commission investigators, and the destruction of the tapes was an attempt to "impede our investigation":

We asked for every single thing that they had. And then my vice chairman, Lee Hamilton, looked the director of the CIA in the face, and said, Look, even if we haven't asked for something, if it's pertinent to our investigation, make it available to us. And our staff asked again and again of their staff and the tapes were not given to us. So, there was no question.[...]

I mean, no question that we again and again and again asked for everything, and we needed it, and we weren't given it. And so, the only conclusion we can draw is it was withheld from us. And that can only be seen to me as an attempt to impede our investigation.

CIA spokesman Mike Mansfield said recently that the tapes weren't destroyed until 2005 "because it was thought the commission could ask about the tapes at some point." So, the CIA withheld the tapes and destroyed the evidence later, ensuring no one could view them to determine whether they were relevant to the Commission's inquiry.

VIDEO AT LINK:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=979_1198606177

Well that makes me even more certain the NSA 'story' is Bush legacy rehab tour, where blm Jul 2013 #1
Sad to hear you say that blm... KoKo Jul 2013 #2
Lee Hamilton has been a go-to guy for Bush coverups since IranContra. That's why he was chosen blm Jul 2013 #3
Are you saying that KoKo Jul 2013 #5
GOP strategists know whenever they can blur image of THEIR guys and Dems THEY win blm Jul 2013 #18
I have no use for Lee Hamilton. Solly Mack Jul 2013 #4
I've always see Hamilton as a FIXER insider working for both parties. KoKo Jul 2013 #6
Oh, Hamilton is a "fixer" all right. Solly Mack Jul 2013 #7
So what do Hamilton and Kean get out of this? KoKo Jul 2013 #9
I didn't say they were trying to bring down Obama. Never. Not once. Solly Mack Jul 2013 #12
Sorry...I was expecting a little more about WHY a Fixer would put this KoKo Jul 2013 #14
I read what they said and to me all I heard was Solly Mack Jul 2013 #15
I did like this statement by them...What do you think of it? KoKo Jul 2013 #16
I'm not commenting on another DUer's comment. Solly Mack Jul 2013 #17
Good links...thanks..and we shall see what we shall see when "they get around to it." KoKo Jul 2013 #20
9/11 commission didn't go far enough. GeorgeGist Jul 2013 #8
Yes...but, there are good people..long time DU'ers posting here KoKo Jul 2013 #11
There's a surprise. Waiting For Everyman Jul 2013 #10
They didn't trash Snowden or accuse him of treason...and that was interesting...! KoKo Jul 2013 #21
"No Question" CIA Attempted "to Impede Our Investigation" Article with CNN Video KoKo Jul 2013 #13
I hope Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton message gets through. avaistheone1 Jul 2013 #19
Translation: westerebus Jul 2013 #22
Ok...I was too optimistic on Hamilton and Kean doing anything that moved forward KoKo Jul 2013 #23
No need for a sorry. westerebus Jul 2013 #24
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