Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of C.I.A.Tapes - NYTIMES - White House involvement

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this puts the tape destruction in the WHITE HOUSE

snip --WASHINGTON — At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials.

The accounts indicate that the involvement of White House officials in the discussions before the destruction of the tapes in November 2005 was more extensive than Bush administration officials have acknowledged.

Those who took part, the officials said, included Alberto R. Gonzales, who served as White House counsel until early 2005; David S. Addington, who was the counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney and is now his chief of staff; John B. Bellinger III, who until January 2005 was the senior lawyer at the National Security Council; and Harriet E. Miers, who succeeded Mr. Gonzales as White House counsel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/washington/19intel.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

[MNDemNY]

1. Please credit the Times.

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3. sorry, wrong paper

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2. oh my goodness

thank you for the link

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4. This report says there was tape and the tape itself never went to Langley.

"Until their destruction, the tapes were stored in a safe in the CIA station in the country where the interrogations took place, current and former officials said. According to one former senior intelligence official, the tapes were never sent back to CIA headquarters, despite what the official described as concern about keeping such highly classified material overseas."