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1. #1    cont'd...The Congress needs to find out who authorized the destruction of those tapes. I should add that this is not the first time that videotapes of alleged torture sessions have been "lost." The same happened in the case of Jose Padilla:....
   written by partynut since 795 days 19 hours 55 minutes
2. #2    A potential opening for Congressional investigation:
   The tapes, recorded in 2002 and destroyed in 2005, were not provided to the September 11 Commission despite a formal request to the CIA for "transcripts and any other documentary evidence" taken from interrogations. The Commission completed its work in 2004.
   
   The story also reports that CIA attorneys told "federal prosecutors in 2003 and 2005, who relayed the information to a federal court in the Moussaoui case, that the C.I.A. did not possess recordings of interrogations sought by the judge in the case." Moussaoui had sought the tapes as exculpatory evidence.
   This administration commits war-crimes, hides the evidence from federal law officers and the 9/11 Commission and then destroys the evidence completely. Give that some time to sink in.
   written by partynut since 795 days 19 hours 54 minutes
3. #3    That's a good one partynut.
   
   The picture at the top reminds me of Salem Witch Trial accounts. One form of torture was referred to as "pressing", as in 'pressing someone for a confession'. The picture is of course more high tech. But the basic version was to lay someone out on the ground, put a door over them, and pile rocks on the door. There was one old man who already could hardly breath from the weight. He started trying to speak and the torturers moved in and asked if he had something to say to them. He gasped out, "More weight." They obliged him and he died. Smart fellow.
   
   Seems we've come full circle from there.
   written by kladner since 795 days 16 hours 4 minutes

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