Justice Dept.: No charges in CIA tape case

[theHandpuppet]

Well isn't this just peachy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/09/AR2010110903696.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert

Justice Dept.: No charges in CIA tape case

By PETE YOST
The Associated Press
Tuesday, November 9, 2010; 1:28 PM

WASHINGTON -- The CIA's former top clandestine officer and others won't be charged in the destruction of CIA videotapes of interrogations of suspected terrorists, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

Another part of the criminal investigation is continuing into whether CIA interrogators went beyond the legal guidance given them on treatment of the suspects during questioning, a Justice Department official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because that part of the probe is still under way.

The CIA destroyed its cache of 92 videos of two al-Qaida operatives, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Nashiri, being waterboarded in 2005.

Jose Rodriguez, formerly the agency's top clandestine officer, worried the 92 tapes would be devastating to the CIA if they ever surfaced. He approved the destruction of the tapes. Rodriguez's order was at odds with years of directives from CIA lawyers and the White House.... MORE

[sabrina 1]

1. Why would there be? It was probably approved from much higher

up. We are a rogue state until the rule of law is reestablished, meantime he is a hero for doing exactly what the government either gave him permission to do, or are very happy that he did it.

This is funny though:

Jose Rodriguez, formerly the agency's top clandestine officer, worried the 92 tapes would be devastating to the CIA if they ever surfaced.

Two things about that. There probably isn't an orgainzation around the globe that is more despised than the CIA already so I'm at a loss as to how this could have harmed their reputation as 'Murder Inc' any further.

The other is, did he really think anyone would be prosecuted for war crimes in this country?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. In America, No one is above the law....unless it's politically inconvenient.

[spanone]

3. The United States of Unaccountability