Harman (D-Calif.) warned the CIA in writing NOT to destroy tapes

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http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20071207/a_cia07.art.htm

CIA destroyed interrogation videos
Director says 2002 records posed risk to identities of questioners

By Alan Gomez
USA TODAY


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Hayden wrote that House and Senate Intelligence Committee leaders were informed of the existence of the tapes and of the agency's plan to destroy them. He said the CIA's internal watchdog also watched the tapes and verified the practices used were legal.

Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., then the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said she informed the CIA in writing at the time that she objected to the destruction of the tapes. On Thursday night, she called it "another self-policing operation gone awry."

"This episode reinforces my view that the CIA should not be conducting a separate interrogation program," she said.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., who was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee from August 2004 until the end of 2006, said through a spokesman he did not recall being informed of the videotapes.

"He believes that Director Hayden is being generous in his claim that the committee was informed," said Jamal Ware, senior adviser to the committee. "He believes the committee should have been fully briefed and consulted on how this was handled."

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http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20071207/a_cia07.art.htm

[Toots]

1. I don't get it, Republicans "Can't Recall" while Democrats say don't destroy evidence

And yet the tapes get destroyed....Is this the Intelligence Agency (one of sixteen) that Republicans are saying only want to support the Democrats and are playing "poitics" with the NIE?

[babylonsister]

2. And Hoekstra wasn't informed? Someone's stretching the truth. nt

[L. Coyote]

3. Read Scott Horton too."Obstruction of Justice at the CIA"

Obstruction of Justice at the CIA
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/12/hbc-90001868

Was this the basis of the recent rumblings at CIA about CIA oversight? Who all has been covering this up? For how long?

[babylonsister]

4. Who knew it'd be so hard to get a straight answer from anyone?

Someone's lying in the CIA; I'm sure Harman has written proof she asked them not to destroy the tapes. I hope this doesn't drop into that overloaded black hole.