Breaking: CIA destroyed 92 interrogation tapes

[MiaCulpa]

Source: Raw Story

New documents show the CIA destroyed nearly 100 tapes of terror interrogations.

The figure is far higher than the handful of recordings the agency has previously admitted destroying, and the revelation comes as a criminal prosecutor is wrapping up his investigation in the matter.




Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Breaking_CIA_destroyed_92_interrogation_tapes_0302.html

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More at the link. This is a developing news report.

-Diane

[seemslikeadream]

1. President Obama the CIA is and has been OUT OF CONTROL

You might want to try and fix it

[glinda]

8. The CIA is "dangerous". Needs to be cleaned out.

[Xenotime]

29. Obama needs to get it under control NOW!!!

[glinda]

44. Yes. Danger danger.

[Demeter]

54. Just Like JFK Did?

I don't think anybody wants to go there.

http://candidblogger.blogspot.com/2009/02/papa-bush-and-jfk-assassination-part-2.html

[avaistheone1]

2. Will anyone be held accountable?

Probably not. Just business as usual.

[ljm2002]

3. Of course they did...

...same reason strains of Anthrax bacteria were destroyed at national labs after the Anthrax attacks. It's better to look bad and potentially potentially punished for destruction of evidence, than to have the truth about what they have done see the light of day.

[cal04]

4. CIA destroyed nearly 100 interrogation tapes, far more than previously known

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-cia-interrogations,0,2379355.story

New documents show the CIA destroyed nearly 100 tapes of terror interrogations.

The figure is far higher than the handful of recordings the agency has previously admitted destroying, and the revelation comes as a criminal prosecutor is wrapping up his investigation in the matter.

The acknowledgment of dozens of destroyed tapes came in a letter filed by government lawyers in New York, where the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking more details of terror interrogation programs.

The tapes became a contentious issue in the trial of Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, after prosecutors initially claimed no such recordings existed, then acknowledged two videotapes and one audiotape had been made.

[Grins]

30. I knew that was a low number

I knew that was a low number. When I was in the Army I learned over time that when the government tells you things are great, they're not "that" great. And when they tell you things are bad - they're worse!!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

41. The fire in Cheney's office Rachel Maddow has been obsessed with???

[RedCloud]

5. After Prescott Bush got exonerated for trading with the enemy

Who knows how much more fascism will be tolerated?

[aquart]

10. Exonerated? Not convicted and confiscated?

[seemslikeadream]

12. in case you haven't noticed

he's a bush, they will never be held accountable for anything

[TheWatcher]

68. Oh......He Didn't Know.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d1JZUAdifwY/RnCtU3QoizI/AAAAAAAAAIk/0RmruquHRik/s400/John+Doe.jpg

[jpak]

6. Obstruction of Justice anyone?

Nahhh....

:puke:

[Enthusiast]

48. Nah, gotta look forward.

:sarcasm:

[Louis-Emmanuel]

64. No doubt

[zbdent]

7. but wait ... according to the Republicans, there had to have been valuable, actionable

information on those tapes! Don't they know they're compromising national security by destroying the tapes?????????

[acmavm]

9. That's why when I see these propaganda shows glorifying the

CIA and FBI, I just laugh.

These guys could just as easily be sitting in a cell awaiting trial as they could be out pushing drugs and waterboarding.

edit: Don't anybody hag me about the 'good ones'. If they keep silent about shit like this, waterboarding, whatever, they're not good.

[w4rma]

14. It's dangerous to be a 'good one', right now. Really dangerous.

The bad ones are cornered and have no qualms about killing.

[L0oniX]

11. Gee ...what do they have to hide if they are innocent of any criminal activity?

I guess they can't be trusted ...just like the cops. Can we trust anyone anymore?

[debbierlus]

13. KICK

[progressoid]

15. Only a hundred?

I'm betting there are a lot more.

[Nothing Without Hope]

42. Me too. "100" is a nice round number that's bound to be a fraction of what

they've buried. No question. Two reasons to say "100": first, that sets the goal for what is searched for, if anyone ever gets the gumption to go looking for evidence surrounding the destroyed material. Second, if the real, much higher number became known, that discovery would be a great scandal all on its own.

[riderinthestorm]

59. Nixon's 18 minutes of wiped out tape were just the tip of the iceburg.

I see strong similarities here....

[L. Coyote]

16. IN other words, Bush destroyed the evidence.

[City Lights]

17. Nice.

:argh:

If they have nothing to hide, why are they destroying tapes?

[antimatter98]

18. JFK was right to want to disband the CIA, we need to bring that up again. n/t

[Blaze Diem]

24. yes and...Why the CIA Killed Him. CIA's offspring is Blackwater. (IMO)

Corrupt and putrifying innerds of our Government.

[RufusTFirefly]

26. Oh yeah. Remind us how that idea worked out for him. n/t

[Enthusiast]

51. The CIA has been operating

outside the law for ages. It is what they do. And they work in support of The Republican fascist ideology.

[Capt. America]

19. This just in...the CIA is corrupt...coming soon...George Bush was a liar.

[sellitman]

21. Just in.....Nobody will do anything about it.

What a sad state of affairs!

[nolabels]

60. Just in.......newspaper will report about it on half column article on page three.........

then most will forget about it day after.......

[goforit]

20. And Leon Pannetta supports their destruction of tapes!!! Like he supports Rove's

criminal behaviors!!!

Obamas group of thugs are alive and well folks!!!

[BluePatriot21]

22. Makes me wonder

where my recent application to the CIA went. I told them in my application that I would be the kind of agent that would do things by the book and would not torture and wanted to make America a better place with a better image abroad. I guess I was too good for them to get a call back. Should I hold on to my hopes of getting a call back?

I am wondering why the people in the Bush administration are still wandering the streets and I also wonder if in 3 years will they still be wanderign the streets? Am I to have no hope that this country can hold people accountable for any crime other than fellatio? I mean wth!?

[The Stranger]

23. I'm glad that the Nancy Disaster didn't want to impeach or investigate.

Or else we would have maybe found some of the evidence the war criminal-home grown Nazis' deeds.

[bluecoat_fan]

25. I suggest using the dog eat my homework excuse...

[Festivito]

27. Suppose it was Rummy, Condi, Georgi, or Dicky on those tapes?

Those would have to be destroyed at any cost. Even to ending the CIA.

High level people enjoying themselves too much.

[Solly Mack]

28. K&R

[No Elephants]

31. Yet another reason to be proud to be a card carrying member of the ACLU.

From the Raw Story article:

The CIA acknowledged that it had destroyed dozens of tapes of interrogations with terrorism suspects in a letter filed by government lawyers in New York, where the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking more details of terror interrogation programs.

The ACLU has responded to the news that 92 videotapes were destroyed with calls of a "prompt finding of contempt."

[libodem]

32. The corruption is so rampant it needs to be dismantled

and reassembled in a likeness of humankind. The Satanic Forces have left the building but the haunting remains. Too bad the former spooks will all go join XE. And we'll have a standing enemy army and surveillance team right on our soil.

[Roon]

33. I always perk up when I see headlines like this

then I see it's linked with rawstory. Most reports posted by rawstory never make the mainstream media.

[democrank]

34. Barbaric thugs.

No sense in trying to pretty things up. They`re thugs.

[Soylent Brice]

35. okay. so when do the indictments begin?

seriously.

[whokilledthem]

36. Obama, are you in charge?

THEN DO SOMETHING MAN!

How could it ever have gotten this bad?

[derby378]

37. We need a "Bastille Day" for the CIA

Just to remind them that they work for us, not the other way around. This is beyond inexcusable.

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

38. wasn't there a Hearing?

yep, I think there was. What is the penalty for lying under oath to congress again?

[Deny and Shred]

55. Yes there were, this time a year ago. I recall Hayden's testimony

http://www.cnponline.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/2471 - article

http://speaker.house.gov/blog/?p=1015 - video of hearings

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

62. Exactly! Hayden

I searched for a transcript but was looking for a senate oversite hearing from July 9, 2008. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/chearings/110scat1.html

That transcript is not listed.

I knew it was Hayden, I can see him testifying in my mind. Thanks for the link.

[RaleighNCDUer]

39. Every person who destroyed those tapes should be fired and barred

from government employment for the rest of their lives.

Every person who ordered them destroyed should go to prison, and then be barred from government employment for the rest of their lives.

If there are no consequences, the consequence will be that it will happen again, and again, and again.

[Grinchie]

57. To bad there isn't a Jack Black type character with a copy

of the tapes so he can cover his own ass, Like in the movie, "Enemy of the State" starring Will Smith

Furthermore, since when does the CIA use "Tapes" anymore. This is so ludicrous that I have to laugh at the stupidity of the American media/Public.

This toxic wastes is all digital, stored in mainframes and database servers and backup farms at Fort Meade. Anyone who thinks that it's a singular "Tape" is delusional.

[paparush]

40. We'll be scrubbing the stench of the Cheney/Bush legacy out of the world for years to come.

[RufusTFirefly]

49. That stench preceded them and will linger long after them

It's been lurking in the background for more than 60 years. The difference is that Cheney/Bush actually rubbed our noses in it.

[Enthusiast]

52. You are probably accurate

in saying that, Rufus. Cheney was well aware of how the spin machine would protect them in any endeavor, and it did. Actually the spin machine protected Reagan after Iran Contra. And after 9/11 some people were filled with an almost insane love for George W Bush.

[paparush]

56. Rufus- I agree and I'm broadening my scope of stench (tm)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

43. K&R

The lies are bigger than we'd imagined.

A full accounting must be given.

Sunlight please.

[fascisthunter]

45. the CIA is Officially Renegade

[mcjackson]

46. i wonder...

...if these tapes were destroyed in the fire that just happened to take place in cheney's office?

[leveymg]

47. KSM was waterboarded almost a hundred times over a two week period

Most of the destroyed tapes were two or three key prisoners who had been involved in planning 9/11 and who had connections with the Agency operations.

No doubt, that did nothing to help their ability to recall key details.

[Joanne98]

50. FIRE the Bush loyalists!

[Enthusiast]

53. That would be the 'correct'

course of action. Don't hold your breath.

[shintao]

58. The Bottom line is.......

Even without the tapes, there is a ton of witnesses and documents both military and detainees, evidence such as 26 dead pows tortured remains, cheney & Bush admissions of guilt & saying they ordered it to be done. Rumsfeld & Rice & Gonzalves are implemented.

Don't fret if the CIA burns tomorrow, the criminals in this case will be brought to justice. Just maybe not all of them.

[Louis-Emmanuel]

61. God knows how many people they tortured

I highly doubt Cheney's claim that only 3 detainees were waterboarded.
I think torture was widespread based on this new info about this massive destruction of evidence.

[Uncle Joe]

63. The number of prisoners being water tortured could just be the tip of the iceberg

regarding their motivation for destroying those tapes.

The point being the "why" in it's full scope will never be known, but I believe whoever in the CIA or above the CIA ordered those tapes to be destroyed should be exposed and prosecuted or the CIA should be disbanded as a rogue agency and threat to our democratic republic.

Welcome to D.U. Louis-Emmanuel.:hi:

[Supersedeas]

65. Bush League Justice -- to destroy the evidence -- right Agent Kiriakou

[JackRiddler]

66. bump

[newspeak]

67. remember, we have had eight long years

of replacing any agent in the FBI and CIA with * loyalists. Those agents who had any sense of a moral compass or conscience had been replaced by those who believe in loyalty only. Remember when they stated "they were cleaning house in the CIA?" Those who were let go for believing in the rule of law should be offered their jobs back. And, there are plenty of people in this poor economy who would love to have a chance at a government position. Panetta needs to "clean house" again and hire those who believe in the Constitution and the American people, not tow the corporate line. For multi-national corporations only owe allegiance to themselves--they could care less about the health or well being of our country.