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Criminal probe into destroyed CIA tapes



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Published Date: 03 January 2008
A CRIMINAL investigation was launched by the US Justice Department yesterday into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes.
The CIA acknowledged last month that it destroyed videos of officers using tough interrogation methods while questioning two al-Qaeda suspects which sparked a congressional inquiry.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey said: "The Department's National Security Division has recommended, and I have concluded, that there is a basis for initiating a criminal investigation of this matter, and I have taken steps to begin that investigation."

Mr Mukasey named John Durham, a federal prosecutor, to oversee the case. Mr Durham has a reputation as one of the most relentless US prosecutors. He served as an outside prosecutor overseeing an investigation into the FBI's use of mob informants in Boston and helped send several Connecticut public officials to prison.

A spokesman for the CIA said officials would "cooperate fully with this investigation as it has with the others into this matter".

The CIA has already agreed to open its files to congressional investigators, who have begun reviewing documents at the agency's headquarters.



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  • Last Updated: 02 January 2008 11:51 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Nancy "Stretch" Pelosi,

San Francisco 03/01/2008 02:57:57
What a waste of money. I'm glad some tape of some poor killer getting a little water poured on his faced was destroyed.

The only reason for the investigation is to waste money and some liberal wants to send a hero to prison for saving lives because he frightened a terrorist for 30 seconds.
2

Lynne,

USA 03/01/2008 03:31:22
Pathetic isn't it!! Does anyone really care what an insurgent thinks about his rights? As far as I am concerned, they have no rights. They are not citizens of the US, and therefore enjoy no priviledges of the US.
It is going to be a huge waste of money..something the Democrats had said they weren't go to do. Yet they have gone back on every promise they made since they took over the majority in the Senate and Congress.
3

Guga II,

Rockall 03/01/2008 06:23:59
I'll bet #1 and #2 would be shouting from the rooftops if it was American soldiers that had been tortured. They obviously don't appreciate that the actions of their government and various government agencies has brought their country into disrepute, with their ongoing kidnapping, torture and murder, and total disregard for international law. They have made America into the Home of the Depraved.
4

57Nomad,

california 03/01/2008 06:44:18

#3 Guga said:

"I'll bet #1 and #2 would be shouting from the rooftops if it was American soldiers that had been tortured."

Say what? If American soldiers had been tortured? Just what do you think happens to captured American soldiers you moron?

5

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03/01/2008 08:56:14
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Number 6,

Germany 03/01/2008 09:02:07
How humiliating as the biggest rouge state on earth has
to endure internal investigations into the use of torture. What a primitive and savage country america has become, excited by violence on a huge scale with zero regard for human life. A nation of war criminals
with no interest in the world outside their borders.

How the world cheered recently as you were humbled and humiliated by tiny papua new guinea at the climate conference. The delegate spoke for the rest of the world when he said "Please leave, please get out of the way and let the rest of us go forward".

You will reap what you have sown when you slither out of Iraq (seee Vietnam, Lebanon , Somalia etc etc), you precious oil supplies already ear-marked for China and Chavez laughing at you in your own back-yard.

How you must have all squirmed recently when Chavez had aid delivered to America's poor, abandoned by their own country, the so called "Land of the free" where you can now , even as an American citizen, be picked up off the street, held without trial or access to legal aid or even your own family. Where you can be tortured or sent abroad for the dirty work to be done else where.

America is now a sick, financially ruined country, kept afloat by loans from China, how the mighty fall
and how little sympathy you have left.

I could weep for those Americans who know whats happening, unlike the majority "See no evil, here no evil herd".
7

Livingstone,

03/01/2008 13:10:55
5 Guga II

Why are you so pro Islamo fascist? You know what those animals do to those whom they capture.
8

Boy Wonder II,

03/01/2008 21:14:28
#6 Number 6,Germany

Get Real, get a clue.
9

57Nomad,

california 03/01/2008 21:48:52
#5 Guga

Guga said:

"The American military said today that it had found the remains of what appears to be the two American soldiers captured by insurgents last week in an ambush south of the capital, and a senior Iraqi military official said the two men had been "brutally tortured."

There you go, dumbass. This is from the New York Times, June 20, 2006.
10

57Nomad,

california 03/01/2008 21:51:27
this should follow Guga said: on post #9::

"4 Nomadic Cretin. What proof do you have that American soldiers have been tortured?"

11

Dáithí,

San Jose 04/01/2008 01:13:50
#6 - Number 6

>"excited by violence on a huge scale with zero regard for human life."

Sorry, you have us confused with German football fans that like to beat up Africans.

Did you have your football kit on that night Number 6, or did you just go with your white hood and sheets?
12

American,

04/01/2008 02:53:32
#6-no. 6- "How you must have all squirmed...." lol..Man, you sure are ignorant about Americans. But I'll bet YOU squirm when you hear schools are still teaching about the holocaust.
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57Nomad,

california 04/01/2008 20:49:02
#13 Mahmud A

Mahmud said:

"The Americans know anything about real torture, only scare tatics. They do not have the fortitude to carry out real torture."


There have been some strange posts on this site and this is right up there with them. What is the point of this post? It takes fortitude to torture someone? That is a strange definition of fortitude. I don't think you have used that word correctly. Perhaps you mean 'sadistic.' "They are not sadistic enough to carry out real torture," is a better and more accurate phrasing.

By the way, we know all about torture. You may think that school bus bombers know something about torture but they don't. The premier torturers of all-time are American Indians. For them it was sport. The term, 'save one for yourself,' grew out of conflict with them. Does the word, 'Apache,' mean anything to you? These were to toughest men who ever lived and knew more about torture by the time they were teenagers than the entire population of the mid-east has been able to acquire in five thousand years.
15

Night_Worker,

St Enoch Centre 05/01/2008 01:27:47
14 57Nomad,california

have you been drinking ive read your paragraph about the apache 6 times now and i do not understand it forgive my poor english ive from india

 

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