The Man Who Ordered CIA's Tape Destruction

[sabra]

Source: CBS News

Jose Rodriguez Ordered Tapes Of Terror Interrogations Destroyed Without Telling CIA Director

(CBS) He is the man who ordered the destruction of video tapes documenting the CIA’s interrogation of two high-level al Qaeda operatives.

The then-head of the clandestine service, Jose Rodriguez, ordered the tapes destroyed shortly after a Washington Post expose focused attention on the CIA’s secret prisons, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

“Well, I think there might have been concern that those tapes could have been called for by some outside body and the CIA would no longer maintain control over them,” said retired CIA officer John Brennan, who is now a CBS News consultant.

Brennan says Rodriguez was also worried the Justice Department was backing away from its earlier support of harsh interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding.

“And that therefore agency officers who participated in those interrogation sessions may be subject to some type of prosecution,” Brennan said.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/10/eveningnews/main3604018.shtml

[Solly Mack]

1. We call that an admission

"Brennan says Rodriguez was also worried the Justice Department was backing away from its earlier support of harsh interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding.

“And that therefore agency officers who participated in those interrogation sessions may be subject to some type of prosecution,” Brennan said."

[davekriss]

2. Prosecution is rendered moot...

...by the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which grants immunity to torturers dating back to 1996. At least that's how I understood it.

[jwirr]

3. Outside body - you mean like the Congress?

[RussBLib]

4. I bet there are more tapes

And it wouldn't surprise me if Bush weren't masturbating to them somewhere.

Isn't Rodriguez good buds with Cofer Black of Blackwater?

http://russblib.blogspot.com/index.html

[ptolle]

5. skeptical

Not that any thinking American would have the slightest inclination to be skeptical about the claims of this misadministration or any of its collaborators inside or outside the government, but there's this I found referred to over at bradblog:http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/12/torture-tapes.html
As with everything else about this misadministration I'm more than inclined to believe there's a helluva lot more to this than we presently know, or may ever know.