Could it be that they really don't know how?

Question

The CIA claims that they destroyed the interrogation tapes to protect the identity of the interrogators. Is it possible that the Agency does not know how to digitally alter the tapes to accomplish this, a skill that most 12 year olds have? Or do they believe as is fashionable with the rest of the administration that the American people are just simple minded congenital idiots and will accept whatever story they are told. .

Justgood:
After the first fifteen words, you kind of fly off into la la land. I hate to tell you but every ******** opinion you have does not qualify it is a fact.
It is kind of well known that the intelligence services world wide attract sociopaths. No normal person would ant to lead such a life or do that kind of work. For their own amusement they acted out some of their lurid fantasies, and knowing that if exposed, it would certainly end their careers and perhaps land them in jail. to protect themselves they destroyed the evidence. Simple as all that. Biden in right in calling for a special prosecutor and the CIA will moan how it is destroying its moral. A new director, without actually firing anybody will clean house and declare that under his sterling leadership the problem has been solved and it will never, never, never happen again. And all the children will go back to the playground and start all over again.

Answer 1

No, there are somethings the American people do not need to hear.

Answer 2

No. I believe nothing that comes out the mouth of the masters of falsifications known as the CIA or the corrupt, criminal Bush administration.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html
http://www.bushwatch.org/bushlies.htm

A cover-up is well underway. The official line that is now emerging from leading Democrats and the White House is that the CIA was urged by various officials—including then-deputy White House chief of staff and close Bush confidant Harriet Miers, leading congressmen, and lawyers at the Justice Department—not to destroy the tapes. According to this line, then chief of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, Jose Rodriguez, made the decision anyway.

As for Bush, his spokesman said on Friday that he had “no recollection” of the tapes or their destruction.

All of this is a smokescreen to cover up the fact that the policy of torture and its concealment received the stamp of approval of both political parties. In fact, the entire US political establishment, including the corporate-controlled media, is implicated in this conspiracy.

It is not clear how long the New York Times and other newspapers knew about the videotapes. With leading Democrats aware of these tapes for years, however, it is highly unlikely that the editors of the Times and the Post were left completely in the dark.

The media is downplaying the significance of a story that could easily form the foundation of impeachment investigations, if not war crimes proceedings, against top administration officials. The Times, which broke the story to begin with, chose not to publish an editorial on the subject of the videotapes in the two days since it published its report.

The most the Times could do was refer to the videotapes briefly in a short editorial—the second of several on Sunday’s editorial page—addressing proposed legislation against CIA water-boarding. The newspaper merely said, “Congress must find out what was on those tapes and who is responsible for their destruction.”

The network evening news broadcasts gave the story scant coverage Friday night and have since dropped it altogether.

The revelation of the CIA torture tapes and their destruction has profound implications for democratic rights in the United States.

The CIA destroyed the footage because it feared the tapes would be exposed either in the course of the 9/11 Commission probe or various judicial proceedings underway at the time. The US government knew that were the American people to see documentary proof of what it was doing in their name they would in their vast majority be shocked, outraged and repulsed.

They were also well aware that they were breaking the law. The Times reported in its initial article on Friday, citing officials familiar with the decision, that the tapes were destroyed “in part because officers were concerned that video showing harsh interrogation methods could expose agency officials to legal risks.”

In this revelation, two sides of the government’s lawlessness converge: Its contempt for the law and any standard of human rights in its foreign policy, and its contempt for the Constitution, the law and the courts in its domestic operations.

Moreover, the complicity of the Democrats underscores the lack of any serious commitment to the defense of democratic rights within either of the two parties of the US corporate elite. Should the Democrats win control of the White House in 2008, there will be no significant change in the basic policy of the US government. From torture, to domestic spying, to illegal wars of aggression, the Democrats have been exposed again and again as direct accomplices of the Bush administration.

Underlying this complicity is a bipartisan defense of the interests of the American ruling elite—in its imperialist expansion abroad and its attack on the living standards and democratic rights of the working class at home.

Answer 3

I find their excuse of "we destroyed the tapes to protect the identity of the interrogators real flimsy since they had no problem outing Valerie Plame. I can only hope this order came from the top man himself so I can watch him squirm in his seat at a congressional hearing.

Answer 4

The CIA (and the rest of the administration) cares not one bit whether anybody believes what they say. What they count on is that they are not held accountable by anybody that can do anything about their lies.

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

Answer 5

I think we have to provide them the latest Mircrosoft Media Center PC with Microsoft Movie Maker.

Answer 6

Destruction of secured documents is standard procedure. We do that at all levels, confidential, secret, top and special. We destroy our equipment, too.

When secure items are deemed to be no longer useful, we are under orders to destroy them using a written procedure.

Answer 7

I think they believe not all information is good for the masses!

Truth is not always a beautiful thing. I think they believe in that...

Answer 8

Yes I think they think we are all idiots. Or better yet, them seeing the lies and corruptness this administration has gotten away with, they figured they would try it themselves.

Answer 9

Maybe the CIA is outsourcing to India and the technology isn't up to date. :)