But it was just 19 terrorists who found a hole in US security on one day in 2001 after years of trying.

We only had to fix the hole, and catch the perpetrators.

The GWOT is a neocon fraud.

After all what will happen if we don’t have well manicured lawns?

Just asking?

Not to mention a tenfold increase in paper-shredding, the invention of new arbitrary categories of secrecy, etc.?

The order to destroy the recordings came from Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., then-head of the CIA’s clandestine service, which deploys spies overseas and carries out covert operations.
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But the clandestine service has long been the most influential branch in the agency. It has a reputation for undermining directors perceived as hostile to the service — including Goss — and has developed a fierce instinct for protecting the agency’s interests.
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That culture, current and former intelligence officials said, helps to explain why Rodriguez ordered the tapes destroyed despite cautions against doing so from senior lawmakers, White House attorneys and the agency’s director.

CYA for all the top guys.

“Plame”, shitforbrains, “Plame”.

It’s my right as an American! Pr0n 24/7 F0R FR33!!!1!!

As Chavez noted, we suffer from collective amnesia about what happened in the aftermath of 9/11. Unfortunately, we still remember waaaay too much, so the healing process of the amnesia has to be helped.

Otherwise, what is the alternative? Sooner or later, someone would leak the tape. Agents seen in those tapes would instantly gain a cult status, and whatever is seen on those tapes would be pronounced just and good, and I am afraid that we are not talking about water boarding here. Water boarding was conceded as defensible method that fits within “we do not torture” claim, and the secret tapes almost surely have much more grizzly content. And a certain category of torture enthusiasts would be getting orgasm by watching them again and again, living them with no body fluids to share with co-enthusiasts of the fair sex (like Linda Chavez).

Look how much Brusch has aged since then…

What part of ILLEGAL DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND????????

[Sorry. Wrong thread.]

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=22864

Johnson says Rodriguez got his fingers burnt during the Iran-contra scandal while working for the CIA in Latin America in the 1980s. Even then he sought authorisation from senior officials. But when summoned to the FBI for questioning, he was told Iran-contra was “political – get your own lawyer”.

wheels within wheels, bendreth.

THE CIA chief who ordered the destruction of secret videotapes recording the harsh interrogation of two top Al-Qaeda suspects has indicated he may seek immunity from prosecution in exchange for testifying before the House intelligence committee.

Jose Rodriguez, former head of the CIA’s clandestine service, is determined not to become the fall guy in the controversy over the CIA’s use of torture, according to intelligence sources.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3087293.ece

Oooh, this is just too good, someone refusing to be a scapegoat even for a nice shiney medal!

His name isn’t yet familiar to most Americans, but I expect it will be by the end of 2008: Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. He is the man, according to recent press reports, who ordered the destruction of interrogation tapes made by the CIA, which allegedly show the effects of waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” used against terrorists Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri

Sure, blame the janitor!

I used to kind of worry about that paradigm, but Pete Wilson pretty much flushed any possibility of it away a decade ago.

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