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Report: CIA destroyed tapes of harsh terrorism interrogations
Dec 7, 2007, 11:37 GMT
The US Central Intelligence Agency has destroyed video recordings of operatives subjecting two terrorism suspects to harsh interrogation techniques, US media reported Friday. EPA/DENNIS BRACK/POOL
Washington - The US Central Intelligence Agency has destroyed video recordings of operatives subjecting two terrorism suspects to harsh interrogation techniques, US media reported Friday.
At least two tapes, made in 2002, documented the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, an associate of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and another high-level al-Qaeda member. The videos were destroyed in 2005 to protect the identity of the operatives, according to an internal staff memo from CIA Director Michael Hayden, the New York Times reported.
The Washington Post reported that Zubaydah had been subjected to waterboarding, a controversial practice which simulates drowning, though it was unclear if it was specifically that technique which was documented on the video tapes in question.
Hayden's memo said Congress had been made fully aware of the tapes' existence and decision to destroy them, but spokesmen for the two ranking members of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee in 2005 told the Times they had not been consulted.
The tapes were also not handed over to the September 11 commission, a broad independent inquiry into the 2001 terrorism attacks on New York and Washington, the intelligence leading up to it and their aftermath.
The American Civil Liberties Union in a statement late Thursday accused the CIA of destroying the tapes to protect the operatives from legal consequences.
'The destruction of these tapes suggests an utter disregard for the rule of law,' said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project. 'Both Congress and the courts have repeatedly demanded that this evidence be turned over, but apparently the CIA believes that its agents are above the law.'
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...other obvious facts:
The sky is blue....
water flows down hill...
Dont worry Brian,the american electorate has been suckered once,they paid a hefty price for that,big bizness emptied the state coffers,the superrich got their taxbreaks ,some of them even felt ashamed of their privileges like Warren Buffet,who admitted that thanks to Bush he pays comparatively less than the rest of the american population indeed .With the republicans indeed water flows downstream ,and so does the money of the american taxpayer .Theit money goes back to the rich ....ladidaa,their money goes back to the rich,ladadeeee...you guys know the rest of the tune ?
Perhaps at the same time, they should have burned the original documents of the Constituition.
Why not?...anything goes, with a madman at the helm.
I wonder what George Washington would say to G.W.Bush about this?....any ideas??Denied access to proper civilian legal lawyers ???Accusations of severe torture and illegal imprisonment???
DISCUSS...Please?
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Boo fricken hoo. Some tapes were destroyed and the euro appeasers are wetting themselves over it.
can't believe the CIA would destroy any evidence. The CIA is pure, clean and void of any indiscretions. Our country is perfect and Bush loves all of us, doesn't he?????
Page one of the original copy of the Constitution
Created September 17, 1787
Ratified June 21, 1788
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'Reply Shuve[sic] it all the WAY'
Yup, looked through the Constitution, couldn't find anything on the CIA destroying tapes of it's interrogations in order to protect the identity of it's agents.
So post it again you stupid monkey. The fact is the US bill of rights does not apply to foreign terrorists in a time of war. Obviously.
I beg yout pardon,we are not talking of foreign terrorists,we are talking of suspected terrorists .Already there is a difference in meaning .Anybody suspected of anything illegal is entitled to a fair trial,right ?Especially a grave accusation of terrorism should lead to a careful procedures,right ?Immagine somebody accuses you tomorrow of such conduct
Meanwhile it appears the immense majority of the detainees are guilty of nothing,except being fundamentalist muslims ?Shall we now also send your moron evangelist funamentalists to Gitmo too ?For the same reasons ?
Or perhaps there is a small matter that makes Bush right in his war against the rest of the world .The fact that he would never attack any country basing himself on lies,defend freedom of speech,his humane idea of justice perhaps ?Please enlighten us on how these matters /It seems your president is being misunderstood.
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brianDec 7th, 2007 - 14:04:10
How convenient.
And some of you people still support this corrupt administration.
How far do they have to go before they are punished for their crimes?
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