No One Charged In Destruction Of CIA Interrogation Tapes

[The Straight Story]

No One Charged In Destruction Of CIA Interrogation Tapes

NPR has learned that no one will be held responsible for the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes that showed people being waterboarded. The statute of limitations has run out on the destruction and the prosecutor has decided there wasn't enough evidence to bring people up on charges, reports NPR's Carrie Johnson.

Jose Rodriguez, a 30 year veteran of the CIA, ordered the destruction of the videos in 2005, shortly after the photos of detainee abuse at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison were released.

John Durham, the prosecutor in the case, declined to comment, but Johnson reports that his remit was broadened last year, and another investigation into CIA interrogations is continuing.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/11/09/131184522/no-one-charged-in-destruction-of-cia-interrogation-tapes?f=1001&ft=1&sc=tw

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

Cool. Now everyone can destroy evidence. Oh, wait... Some of the people aren't above the law. I forgot.

[katandmoon]

2. K&R So much for justice.

[gratuitous]

3. When you don't investigate, you don't develop evidence

Isn't it funny how that works out? Well, I'm pretty sure that nothing bad will come of all this, and that the folks we tortured (or their survivors) won't hold a grudge. And if they do, they probably won't really do anything about it. But if they do, they'll probably go after those responsible for the torture, and not just any convenient target. And if it turns out that they're so indiscriminate as to want to just visit revenge on Americans in general, then those of us who take their righteous vengeance won't mind paying with our lives for the crimes of the Bush administration.

Right? So much better than lookin' backwards to the past!

[Solly Mack]

5. Damn freedom haters

[glitch]

4. Course not, too busy pursuing medical marijuana growers and peace activists.

Priorities, people.

[barbtries]

6. disgusted.

President Obama needs to re-staff the DOJ and get the motherfucking bushies out of there.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, The Straight Story.

[spanone]

8. that's sooo american...and bu$h* walks on torture...i love it!!!!!

:sarcasm:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. K&R