Weekend Laugh
From the folks in Langley:
The New York Times reports that requests from the 9/11 Commission specifically included "documents", "reports", and "information" related to the interrogations. Normally, in federal investigations, (and the English language) videotapes would fall into at least one of those categories. (Hard to imagine them not being 'information', really.)
Phillip Zelikow, former executive director of the Commission, has written a memo describing why he thinks the CIA was misleading about the videotapes.
"The notion that the CIA wasn't cooperative or forthcoming with the 9/11 commission is just plain wrong. It is utterly without foundation."
Utterly!
Where do they get these guys?
"The notion that the CIA wasn't cooperative or forthcoming with the 9/11 commission is just plain wrong. It is utterly without foundation," spokesman Mark Mansfield said Saturday. "The CIA's cooperation and assistance is what enabled the 9/11 commission to reconstruct the plot in their very comprehensive report."Apparently, asking for 'everything you've got' was not specific enough.
In a statement e-mailed separately Saturday, Mansfield suggested the commission should have been specific about wanting videotapes.
"Because it was thought the commission could ask about tapes at some point, they were not destroyed while the commission was active," he said. Mansfield, citing similar comments this month by CIA Director Michael Hayden, added that "the tapes were destroyed only when it was determined they were no longer of intelligence value and not relevant to any internal, legislative, or judicial inquiries."
The New York Times reports that requests from the 9/11 Commission specifically included "documents", "reports", and "information" related to the interrogations. Normally, in federal investigations, (and the English language) videotapes would fall into at least one of those categories. (Hard to imagine them not being 'information', really.)
Phillip Zelikow, former executive director of the Commission, has written a memo describing why he thinks the CIA was misleading about the videotapes.
Among the statements that the memorandum suggests were misleading was an assertion made on June 29, 2004, by John E. McLaughlin, the deputy director of central intelligence, that the C.I.A. “has taken and completed all reasonable steps necessary to find the documents in its possession, custody or control responsive” to formal requests by the commission and “has produced or made available for review” all such documents.Yet, no one even mentioned that they had these videotapes? Riiight.
"The notion that the CIA wasn't cooperative or forthcoming with the 9/11 commission is just plain wrong. It is utterly without foundation."
Utterly!
Where do they get these guys?
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