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Wednesday, January 02, 2008


Justice Department To Investigate Destroyed CIA Tapes

I suspect that, much like the Plame fiasco, the process of investigating this matter will matter much more to the blowhards pushing it than the actual results do.

I still don’t understand what was criminal about this.  The CIA was afraid of the tape being leaked for political purposes (remember that the CIA has been a sieve since Bush took office) and didn’t want the intelligence on the tape or the interrogators identified by it to be compromised.

Both valid concerns.

So they ensured that the pertinent data from the tape was kept in report format, notified the appropriate Congressional leadership on the intelligence committees, and two years later destroyed the tape.

Two years.

Do those sound like the steps taken by a government agency trying to hide something?  And certainly Congress didn’t use any of its formidable power to prevent those tapes from being destroyed during the two years the CIA waited before destroying them.  So why the beef now?

Because it’s a convenient, pre-election political issue.  That’s why.

Your tax dollars, hard at work.

And yes, I know, this is Bush’s Justice Department doing the investigation, but it’s pretty much a defensive move at this point.

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This Democrat congress is sinking in its approval ratings and this kind of continual investigations of anything and everthing is not helping them. These are indirect attacks on our military and national defense by the Democrat Party. We have entered 2008 and the Dem’s/Liberal Left is in trouble with the voters.

halatbis on January 2, 2008 at 05:45 pm

There is a law against destroying possible evidence. You can’t get around the law by getting someone to OK it. Bush and Cheney are criminals and however they get them is fine with me. They need to do it before a new president pardons them and stops any investigation(s). Plant some evidence, turn someone, or something.

ews48 on January 2, 2008 at 05:46 pm

There is a law against destroying possible evidence.

No. The law prevents destruction of evidence, not “possible” evidence.  By that standard, nothing should ever be destroyed, because it might be evidence of something, sometime.  This is another witchhunt, and it saddens me that our President authorized it.  He needs to quit pandering to the lefties.


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robert108 on January 2, 2008 at 05:52 pm

Bush and Cheney are criminals and however they get them is fine with me.

So, Bush and Cheney are responsible for this? I suppose they made Sandy Berger stuff and steal, didn’t they.


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Hoss on January 2, 2008 at 08:27 pm

I still don’t understand what was criminal about this.

From today’s NYT

The tapes were never provided to the courts or to the Sept. 11 commission, which had requested all C.I.A. documents related to Qaeda prisoners. The question of whether to destroy the tapes was for nearly three years the subject of deliberations among lawyers at the highest levels of the Bush administration.

Justice Department officials declined to specify what crimes might be under investigation, but government lawyers have said the inquiry will probably focus on whether the destruction of the tapes involved criminal obstruction of justice and related false-statement offenses.

So, the courts and the 911 Commission requested all materials related to the prisoners, the CIA held on to the tapes and then destroyed them. The reasons for the destruction that you provide are certainly plausible but surely you can see why an investigation is in order.


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MikeAdamson on January 3, 2008 at 07:59 am
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Ted Kennedy said. “Those tapes may have been evidence of a crime, and their destruction may have been a crime in itself.”

I always love it when the Chappaquiddick Kid talks about crime! I think what Teddy Kennedy destroyed was a far bigger crime than any tapes disposed of by the CIA.
Maybe if the CIA guys wear a phony neck brace to the hearings, they can get a little sympathy?


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Scooter went under the bus and it didn’t hurt much.
Rodriguez is looking for immunity before laying on the tarmac.

Roady on January 3, 2008 at 09:32 am
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