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Friday, December 07, 2007

duh

this isn't new. documents, emails, video tapes, letters they are destroyed ALL of the time. not just by republicans either.

HOWEVER, under king george's administration it happens left and right. it happens day and night. it happens here and there. we don't torture either. except when we torture

CIA Destroyed Videos Showing Interrogations
Harsh Techniques Seen in 2002 Tapes


By Dan Eggen and Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writers
The CIA made videotapes in 2002 of its officers administering harsh interrogation techniques to two al-Qaeda suspects but destroyed the tapes three years later, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday.
Captured on tape were interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, a close associate of
Osama bin Laden, and a second high-level al-Qaeda member who was not identified, according to two intelligence officials. Zubaydah has been identified by U.S. officials familiar with the interrogations as one of three al-Qaeda suspects who were subjected to "waterboarding," a technique that simulates drowning, while in CIA custody. ..................

................All the tapes were destroyed in November 2005 on the order of Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., then the CIA's director of clandestine operations, officials said. The destruction came after the Justice Department had told a federal judge in the case of al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui that the CIA did not possess videotapes of a specific set of interrogations sought by his attorneys. A CIA spokesman said yesterday that the request would not have covered the destroyed tapes............

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