The Bush Administration must love the fact that this CIA tape case broke just before Christmas and then got swept under the rug by both the holiday and the groundswell of presidential campaign hyperbolic naval gazing that’s been going since the start of this year. Despite the overall lack of coverage by the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘CIA Tapes’
CIA Tape Case – New Developments
Posted in CIA, DoJ, tagged CIA, CIA Tapes, Congress, Department of Justice, Jose Rodriguez, torture on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CIA Tape Case -Criminal Probe Launched
Posted in CIA, DoJ, Guantanamo Bay, Mukasey, tagged CIA, CIA Tapes, Department of Justice, John Durham, Mukasey on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Its been nearly a month since we started reporting on the destruction of the CIA torture tapes. We’re sure that certain folks within the administration were hoping it would go away in an egg nog induced haze, the case got new teeth yesterday when Attorney General Michael Mukasey launched a criminal probe into what happened [...]
Waterboarding Like “Flipping A Switch”, Dems and Republicans Agree.
Posted in Bush Administration, CIA, DoJ, torture, tagged CIA, CIA Tapes, Congress, DoJ, Pelosi, torture, Waterboarding on December 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s clear to us why Pelosi took impeachment off the table. She and her cohorts supported the President’s descent into war crimes and as we reported earlier asked whether or not the torture techniques used were tough enough.
CIA Tapes -NY Times Document Alludes to Existence of Tapes as of 2007
Posted in Bush Administration, CIA, DoJ, torture, tagged CIA, CIA Tapes, torture on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In a PDF from the New York Times surrounding the destruction of key CIA tapes showing interrogation techniques used on detainees, a sentence on page two alludes to the fact that the tapes were not in fact destroyed. Are these copies? Different tapes?
CIA Tape Case Update: Blood In The Water
Posted in CIA, DoJ, Guantanamo Bay, intelligence community, tagged CIA, CIA Tapes, Congress, DoJ, Guantanamo, torture, Waterboarding on December 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The blood is in the water on the CIA tape case, as was broken on Friday, the CIA has destroyed two tapes which contain evidence of waterboarding. This prompted a firestorm of accusations about who knew what, when, and whether or not there is a case to be made about obstruction of justice. Republicans [...]