A Cover Up? Congress To Begin Hearings On Destroyed CIA Tapes

ABC News :

In a closed door hearing scheduled for Wednesday, Congress plans to ask why the CIA destroyed tapes showing interrogations of suspected al-Qaeda operatives. Was it a cover-up?

National security author Ken Timmerman says, "All the members of the House Intelligence Committee are very upset about this, Republicans and Democrats."

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Comments

[LittleGreenGreaseBalls]

02:32 PM on 01/14/2008

Start right at Cheney's office and work your way down. The big question is who was there when those tapes were made? Who witnessed the torture? Was it Darth-the-smirking or one of his minions?

[Mort]

01:50 PM on 01/14/2008

How can you have a "hearing" on tapes that are destroyed? Sit in a dark room holding hands with a psychic?

[wheelskeepturning]

12:58 PM on 01/14/2008

Its too bad Bush had to wait 7 yrs before he could make a decent speech to the people of the middle east. It was the best written and best performed speech I have seen him give to date. Unfortunately it doesn't change my mind about him. However he is the decider, lets just get him out of office before he can make any more wrong decisions!!!!!!!!

[speakingtruth2power]

12:41 PM on 01/14/2008

The tapes were not destroyed by the independent order of a CIA executive to protect the identities of agents and neither was they destroyed to hide torture.

The Zubaida interrogation revealed the 9-11 involvement of a Pakistani general and three Saudis which BushCo did not want to be made public. General Mushaf ali Mur and Princes; Ahmed Bin Salman. Falud Bin Turli and Sultan Bin Faisal all mysteriously died soon after this.

These elite Sunnis had helped finance terrorism because they believed in jihad and were a huge embarrassment to Musharraf, King Faisal and their Bush crime family connections. It is all about power, oil and drugs, just more Bushit!!!

[mike53]

12:22 PM on 01/14/2008

If they were smart at the CIA they would have stored the tapes in a freezer somewhere.

[brently]

12:11 PM on 01/14/2008

you were responsible for 9/11 weren't you?

NO, I ...
(dunk) ...gaaaasp... (dunk)... wheeze...

I'll ask again.. you were responsible for 9/11 weren't you?

[theporcupine]

12:07 PM on 01/14/2008

To put this in context, consider what a previous commission of inquiry found when investigating torture techniques used by the United States of America. At the end of the Second World War, the United States had a special prison near Stuttgart, called Schwäbish Hall, for German’s suspected of major war crimes. According to MacDonogh (2007. After the Reich: The Brutal History of Allied Occupation. Basic Books, NY.), the techniques of torture used on these inmates

"included kicks to the groin, deprivation of sleep and food, and savage beatings. When the Americans set up a commission of inquiry into the methods used by their investigators, they found that, of the 139 cases they examined, 137 had “had their testicles permanently destroyed by kicks received from the American War Crimes Investigation team”"

[Bluedanube]

11:50 AM on 01/14/2008

Crank up Leahy's, Conyer's, Waxman's "stern letter" machine.

[Bluedanube]

11:47 AM on 01/14/2008

Another Congressional investigation! Aren't we all impressed? The precedent has been set that Congressional subpeona's do have to be honored and their are no consquences for lying to a committee investigation. Until there are consequences for ignoring subpeonas and lying before Congress this "investigation" will be just another sham.

[loki]

11:32 AM on 01/14/2008

Smoke and mirrors and more political theater from both repugs and dumorats.
I have no faith in dumorats anymore, and I expect the same results from this as we have seen on their campaign promises.

[FloaterBall]

11:17 AM on 01/14/2008

Can I ask a dumb question, which no one else seems to wonder: Why the F were these torture sessions filmed in the first place? I'm sure the "interrogations" were horrible enough without some freak standing there with a fucking videocam. How sick is that? And besides, shouldn't the CIA have known such tapes could only lead to trouble?

Memo to clueless CIA: Don't make tapes of your clandestine bullshit in the first place.

Memo to toothless congress: CIA broke the law.

[Moshe]

11:10 AM on 01/14/2008

One of the more disturbing aspects of where we are right now in this Nation is the numbness we have begun to feel about things that not so long ago would have been intolerable. We have become like the frog in the gradually heating pot of water, hardly noticing as the pot comes ever closer to a fatal point of boiling.

Demonstrable lies that led a nation into a disastrous war, gross mismanagement of the economy, aiding Halliburton and other croonies in looting our public treasury and oil companies in picking our pockets more directly, policies that are destroying the working and middle classes, torture, hyper-secrecy, a disturbing authoritarianism in the enforcement of laws against ordinary citizens while those with power thumb their traitorous noses at the rule of law with total impunity and contempt for the rest of us . . .

We have reached a crossroads in our history. Either we gather the courage to jump out of the pot, or we passively wait to see all that was good about our Nation fade away.

Either we take control of our own lives and our own future, or we will see it taken away from us by the scoundrels that can't wait to do so.

[donjoe4]

10:51 AM on 01/14/2008

How about the real cover-up?...The war in iraq..no elections in november..bush and chaney are staying...ttthats all folks!!!

[Beelzebul]

10:51 AM on 01/14/2008

Bush visited Dubia and they promptly declared it a holiday. Now that's what I call gratitude for taking the price of oil from $20 a barrel to $100.

Dubya then went on to Saudi Arabia to hold hands with the people who finance more terrorist activites than any other country on earth.

You gotta love those family ties.

[BoBoPupkin]

10:50 AM on 01/14/2008

These are the kind of passe stories that Americans don't care about that should be put on video games so libs can occupy themselves to their hearts content.