Ex-CIA official goes from the shadows to the spotlight

[maddezmom]

Source: IHT

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Rodriguez is hardly the only current or former agency official under scrutiny. In the months ahead, investigators will try to reconstruct the chain of events leading up to the decision in November 2005 to destroy the interrogation tapes and will try to determine who else inside the agency may have approved the decision.

According to a former top intelligence official who has spoken to Rodriguez in recent days, he remains confident that he acted lawfully and had the authority to destroy the tapes.

Whether CIA lawyers in fact approved the destruction will be a question for investigators in Congress, the Justice Department and the CIA inspector general's office. Some congressional officials said they want to know why Porter Goss, the CIA director at the time the tapes were destroyed, appears never to have notified congressional committees about the destruction.

~snip~

Nancy Pelosi, who was among the lawmakers at that briefing and who has since become speaker of the House of Representatives, issued a statement saying that she eventually did protest the techniques and that she concurred with objections raised by a fellow Democrat in a letter to the CIA in early 2003.

Reyes, a Texas Democrat, declined a request for an interview about Rodriguez but issued a statement saying his committee was planning not only to examine the circumstances of the destruction of the videotapes but also to conduct a "broad review" of the CIA's detention and interrogation program.



Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/10/news/cia.php?WT.mc_id=rssfrontpage

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Geez, Nancy, thanks:

"Nancy Pelosi, who was among the lawmakers at that briefing and who has since become speaker of the House of Representatives, issued a statement saying that she eventually did protest the techniques and that she concurred with objections raised by a fellow Democrat in a letter to the CIA in early 2003."

Nice to hear that she "eventually did protest...." She must have had more pressing matters to attend to.

[MuseRider]

2. That is the line

that jumped out at me too. Anyone with a speck of concern for others, no matter who they may be, would have loudly protested at the time. How could you not? Political reasons?

[IndianaGreen]

7. Pelosi put impeachment off the table to coverup her own wrongdoing

Pelosi the torture enabler! I wonder in how many other crimes of the Bush regime has Pelosi, and other Democratic leaders, been complicit.

[formercia]

3. So, Nancy

How about posting a copy of your protest letter so we can judge for ourselves.

There's an election coming up in less than a year. It would be nice to have it before then.

[Javaman]

4. And I get flamed for posting my objections about pelosi...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2437297&mesg_id=2437297

better put on your fire proof suit.

[IndianaGreen]

6. Some people would defend Nazi war criminals if they had a "D" after their names

Joseph Mengele (D-Paraguay)

[IndianaGreen]

5. Pelosi should step down as Speaker. She cannot be trusted!

It now becomes obvious why Pelosi put impeachment off the table. Any investigation of Cheney and Bush's crimes would expose Democratic complicity.