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CIA Torture Coverup Was Worse Than We Knew

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Posted on Mar 2, 2009
U.S. Navy / Photographer's Mate 1 Shane T. McCoy

Military police escort a detainee at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay. In 2005, a federal judge ordered that evidence of interrogations at the facility should be preserved.

Remember those two videotapes documenting “enhanced interrogation” that the CIA destroyed, despite a judge’s order to preserve such evidence? Well, it turns out the agency wiped 90 more just like them.

BBC:

The Central intelligence Agency (CIA) has destroyed 92 tapes of interviews conducted with terror suspects, a US government lawyer has admitted.

The agency had previously said that it had destroyed only two tapes.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a lawsuit against the CIA to seek details of the interrogations of terror suspects.

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By John Kennedy, March 3, 2009 at 3:42 pm Link to this comment
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The CIA’s Destroying of Tapes IS A FEDERAL CRIME.

PROSECUTE! 

Obama’s pronouncements on Torture, etc
Are To Be Seen As Just Political Posturing UNLESS

A Special Prosecutor
Is Appointed VERY SOON!

We understand what our politicians really stand for by how they act and do not act, Not Just By What They Say.

So IF Obama and Holder would rather We Believe that “THEY Really believe Torture is Illegal”, the Only Way They Can Prove It To We The Voters,
IS TO APPOINT A Special Prosecutor.

Obama said,

“no one is above the law”

SO Congress must demand and the Justice Dept must appoint a Special Prosecutor with Subpoena Powers and the authority to indict all those officials found to have violated Federal Laws, Our Constitution or the Geneva Convention on Torture. The Statute of Limitations starts to run out in March. Prosecution will stop unnecessary wars and the damage to our economy caused by presidential lies and Abuse Of Power. Bush & Cheney confessed that they ordered torture. Very little additional investigation is needed.

Sen. Leahy & Rep. John Conyers’ “blue ribbon commissions” will be nothing but a white wash and a burial for all time of the true facts.

We do not want a commission. We want them prosecuted.

YOU CAN HELP MAKE THEM PROSECUTE!

SIGN THE PETITION To Prosecute at

http://IndictBushNow.org

Have your local progressive group Endorse this Letter to Attorney General Holder

http://ProsecuteBushCheney.org

Prosecute so our 30,000+ US Soldiers who were killed or maimed have not suffered in vain

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By Master B, March 2, 2009 at 9:11 pm Link to this comment
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Check Cheney’s porn shelf.
Copies of the tapes are probably on there…

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By diamond, March 2, 2009 at 2:40 pm Link to this comment

Can the CIA and the Pentagon ever tell the truth about anything?Maybe. But not about the war on terror. No way. Because the war on terror is a lie and a crime and why would they want videotapes of their crimes lying about? Increasingly it looks as if Obama is going to cave, because having seen the military/industrial complex up close he knows it’s bigger than he is and he can’t defeat it. Maybe if the Republicans and the neo cons hadn’t left the time bomb of financial armageddon ticking in the oval office he could have, but under the present circumstances they will probably get away with it because Obama has to stop that bomb in the oval office from going off. It’s all about priorities, but there’s nothing to stop him doing something later on. My guess is the shredders are working round the clock right now in anticipation of a day of reckoning at some point. If necessary they’ll eat those incriminating pieces of paper sheet by sheet and dump those videotapes in the middle of the ocean!

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By Jim Yell, March 2, 2009 at 2:05 pm Link to this comment
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Destroying evidence should be considered the same thing as a complete admission of crime. If it is an arm of government or Enron this should not be allowed. When it is coupled with questions of illegal behavior and even a question of crime to destroy the evidence is to admit you are quilty as they are guilty.

The government wants us to believe we can’t prosecute or even investigate Bush/Cheney and there gangster leadership, well I don’t think we can afford not to and have any hope for the future.

We have the vehicles for this necessary action and it came with the founding of the country. Our leaders then understood there would be times requiring correction and it has not happened in this case. Why?

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