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PostSubject: Re: The US do not Torture - They do "Enhanced Interrogation   The US do not Torture - They do "Enhanced Interrogation EmptyThu Dec 20, 2007 12:37 pm

"The Bush administration has taken aggressive steps to undermine
congressional and judicial inquiries into the CIA’s destruction
of videotapes showing the torture of at least two prisoners. The
move is only the latest demonstration of the administration’s
lawlessness and contempt for democratic and constitutional norms.

The tapes in question recorded hundreds of hours of interrogation
of two alleged Al Qaeda members, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim
al-Nashiri, both captured by the CIA in 2002. Among the techniques
used on the prisoners was water-boarding, a notorious torture
method involving the near-drowning of the prisoner. Earlier this
month, CIA director Michael Hayden acknowledged that the intelligence
agency had destroyed the tapes in November 2005."

read further:http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/cia-d17.shtml
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PostSubject: CIA 'kept' tapes from 9/11 probe   The US do not Torture - They do "Enhanced Interrogation EmptySun Dec 23, 2007 8:11 am

CIA 'kept' tapes from 9/11 probe
Sunday, 23 December 2007

A leaked memorandum from the former 9/11 commission
says it made repeated requests to the CIA for information
on the interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects.

But ex-commission executive director Philip Zelikow says the CIA
did not hand over tapes that have since come to light, the
New York Times reported.

The CIA later erased the footage, which allegedly contains
images of abuse.

The memo urges a further investigation into whether the agency
acted illegally by withholding the recordings.

The CIA says there was no specific request for the tapes, which
reportedly contained images of interrogation techniques including
water-boarding, which simulates drowning. The CIA denies torture.

'Clearly obstructed'
The agency filmed the footage in 2002 and erased it in 2005, a
year after the commission ended its work.

The commission conducted an internal review earlier this month
after the deleted CIA tapes came to light.

A copy of Mr Zelikow's findings, dated 13 December, was obtained
by The New York Times.

His memorandum notes the commission asked the CIA in 2003 and
2004 for "documents", "reports" and "information" relating to
interrogations.

But, the report says, a CIA director replied in 2004 that it had
already "produced or made available for review" all relevant material.

Mr Zelikow's seven-page findings conclude "further investigation is
needed" to determine if the CIA's withholding of the tapes violated
federal law.

It notes that it is illegal to "knowingly and wilfully" withhold or
"cover up" a "material fact" from a federal inquiry.

The CIA insisted on Saturday it had gone to great lengths to help
the commission, which was set up to investigate al-Qaeda's
11 September 2001 attacks on the US.

The agency's spokesman Mark Mansfield said:
"Because it was thought the commission could ask about tapes at
some point, they were not destroyed while the commission was active."

But one of the commission chairmen, former Democratic congressman
Lee Hamilton, told the New York Times the CIA had "clearly obstructed"
the commission's work.

The CIA and the Department of Justice have already launched an
inquiry into the erasing of the tapes.

The agency said the footage was deleted to protect the identities of
agents and because it was no longer of intelligence value.

--BBC--
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PostSubject: Re: The US do not Torture - They do "Enhanced Interrogation   The US do not Torture - They do "Enhanced Interrogation EmptyMon Dec 24, 2007 10:16 am

The memo written by the executive director of the 9/11 commission, Philip Zelikow, is only the latest indication that the concealment and destruction of videotapes depicting the interrogation of CIA prisoners are part of a conspiracy involving high-level officials in the White House and the CIA. (See “White House, CIA hid torture tapes from 9/11 Commission.”)

From the beginning, the 9/11 Commission—composed of leading figures in both the Democratic and Republican parties—was intended as a whitewash. Its purpose was to cover up the basic issues, including the role of previous administrations, Democratic and Republican, and the CIA in funding and promoting Osama bin Laden and other radical Islamists who went on to establish Al Qaeda, and a host of anomalies that point to the possible complicity of sections of the state apparatus in the 9/11 attacks themselves.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/comm-d24.shtml

The full memo available here : http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/20071222-INTEL-MEMO.pdf
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