Rice Claims Ignorance Of CIA Tapes’ Destruction, Refuses To Comment On 2002 Interrogations

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Rice Claims Ignorance Of CIA Tapes’ Destruction, Refuses To Comment On 2002 Interrogations

Today in a speech to the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer what she knew about the interrogations that were videotaped in 2002, and then destroyed two years later. When moderator Andrea Mitchell asked Rice when she learned of the destruction of the tapes, Rice replied, “I myself don’t recollect any knowledge of the tapes.”

When asked about the 2002 interrogations, however, Rice was less forthcoming:

MITCHELL: Could we just ask, since the interrogations took place in 2002 when you were national security adviser, at the time were you aware — fully aware of the techniques being used and the videotape?

RICE: As I said, the Justice Department has now taken up this matter, and so I don’t think that it’s appropriate for me to comment further.

Watch it:

[hisownpetard]

Rice no longer has to claim ignorance on anything - after 6 do-nothing years, we believe her.

[louis-t]

1. Useless, useless woman.

This is an educated woman? "I myself don’t recollect any knowledge of the tapes.” Who talks like that?

[spanone]

2. i think we're going to hear the word 'classified' a whole lot in the next year

[Disturbed]

3. “I myself don’t recollect..."

This is always the best answer to a question that one does not wish to answer. Teach your children this as early as possible.

[Solly Mack]

4. Rice is a war criminal just like the rest of them

She's going to lie, deflect, and avoid....

[truebrit71]

5. Yep. It's still shocking to think of just how far this country has fallen..

...in just seven years...

[Solly Mack]

7. Fallen hard and fast...and so low

[BuyingThyme]

6. Interesting thought: Being that most criminal operations are being

transferred to the State Department (i.e. "reconstruction," Negroponte, Blackwater), I wouldn't be surprised if the people who actually did the torturing for the CIA were actually on the State Department payroll.