The CIA destroyed videotapes it made in 2002 of two top terror suspects because it was afraid that keeping them "posed a security risk," Director Michael Hayden has told agency employees.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071207/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_videotapes
2007-12-07 01:10:01 · 14 answers · asked by Zardoz 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
becuase they wouldnt want you to see how they "not torture" people to death
2007-12-07 01:15:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Yeah, as if they couldn't mask the identities of the interrogators in the videos, as if they didn't have room to store the tapes once they got all the pertinent information from them...The true answer is they were destroyed to obstruct justice. The subpoenas were flying in late 2005, and the CIA did not want its torture of the suspects to be discovered in litigation. If that happened, many of the cases against the high value suspects would be dismissed for lack of admissible evidence since they were built on confessions obtained by torture.
Just as bad, some of the released detainees would have sued the US government, and even worse yet, Republicans would have lost more seats in Congress and more governorships in the 2006 elections.
Heavens to betsy, if the CIA did not destroy the tapes, we might be back to observing the Geneva conventions and allowing terror suspects to have the right of habeas corpus and all due process including trials! Good thing for Republicans and our nation that Republican flack CIA Director Porter Goss ordered the tapes destroyed.
2007-12-07 01:24:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
More of a threat to Job Security, than National Security. The "threat" was that it might be used in a Senate investigation or a criminal trial.
But, then to the Intelligence Community and a large part of the Military, the US taxpayer is more of an enemy than any foreigner. After all, to them. dictators and terrorists are just colleagues on different sides. and the sides can change without notice. The old Soviet Bloc hired a lot of former Nazis to run its torture chambers, and I'm sure a close examination would find some KG used to B's working in US run interogation camps.
It just goes to show that some of the people most dangerous to America are in our own Government.
2007-12-07 03:33:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here's a better question. If everything is on the up and up then why would the CIA destroy the tapes? Makes you wonder what else the government and our intelligence agencies are hiding in the country that everyone else should look up to.
We keep forgetting the first rule of terrorism. When you become obssed with the terrorists, you become the terrorist.
2007-12-07 01:24:45 · answer #4 · answered by White Star 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
they might desire to purely be released if there is an accounting of the form of yank lives that have been saved by the interrogation. And if in basic terms one life became saved, and the guy interrogated did no longer die, we could continually bypass a regulation that each and every physique terrorist could be tortured to save lives. it would be customary coverage and supported by the ACLU as they do care approximately American lives.
2016-11-14 18:26:37 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is their prerogative to destroy anything they wish.
People don't need destroyed tapes to see what the CIA has been doing to destroy the Constitution.
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2007-12-07 09:18:10 · answer #6 · answered by Shadow Knight 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because if they were watched by any judicial member, the CIA would be prosecuted for torture.
P.S. They DENIED they had them when they were asked about it several years ago.
2007-12-07 01:37:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
waterboarding is not a pretty sight... would you keep a tape of yourself torturing somebody ?
EDIT: RICKY, up for some waterboarding ? it ain't that bad right, it's just like somebody raising their voice, no ?
torture perpetrated by the US endangers our troops, as it gives our enemy an excuse to torture them if they become captured, as simple as that...
2007-12-07 03:31:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, you know it's getting to be the "clean up" year for this administration. They don't have to long before they're all gone and need to destroy records and stuff.
2007-12-07 01:23:19 · answer #9 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
CIA found they are not Terrorists
2007-12-07 01:58:13 · answer #10 · answered by ashish c 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would they keep incriminating evidence.
They would have to be real bozos to have kept them.
2007-12-07 01:52:54 · answer #11 · answered by Perplexed Bob 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋