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.
