Seems like some extra dumb agents video taped the interrogation of one or two Al Quada suspects back around '01 or '02. These clueless agents apparently forgot how much trouble tapes can get you into. Just ask Richard Nixon about tapes. Then they kept the tapes, and even dumber, let other people know the tapes existed. Interrogating an unwilling terrorist isn't a pretty thing, with or without waterboarding, and showing live action tapes is going to make the audience unhappy. Better not to videotape in the first place, and failing that, keep them secret and destroy them quietly.
Long about 2005, Jose Rodriguez, Chief of the CIA National Clandestine Service figured out that the tapes were nothing but trouble, especially for the CIA guys doing the interrogation. He had them destroyed. Mr. Rodriguez is an old CIA hand who plans to retire this year. According to some sources, he was able to get some CIA lawyers to OK the tape destruction in writing. If so, some CIA lawyers had best get their resume's (and alibis) in order.
Coming on top of the "Iranians aren't building a bomb" paper of last week, you begin to wonder whether we would be better off shutting down CIA. Can we believe anything coming out of Langley now?
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