Well, torture was used; the coverup continued; evidence was destroyed; lies were told; the White House was involved.
Porter J. Goss, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in 2005 approved of the decision by one of his top aides to destroy dozens of videotapes documenting the brutal interrogation of two detainees, according to an internal C.I.A. document released Thursday.
Shortly after the tapes were destroyed at the order of Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., then the head of the C.I.A.’s clandestine service, Mr. Goss told Mr. Rodriguez that he “agreed” with the decision, according to the document. He even joked after Mr. Rodriguez offered to “take the heat” for destroying the tapes.
“PG laughed and said that actually, it would be he, PG, who would take the heat,” according to one document, an internal C.I.A. e-mail message.
The buck was passed; international laws were contravened; the people were conned; the elected official betrayed his country; involvement of high officials was denied.
... The documents detailing those deliberations, including two e-mail messages from a C.I.A. official whose name has been excised, were released as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. ...
A New York Times reporter pursued the story; the media sought reactions; a succinct account of years of lies and coverups was written.
A spokesman for Mr. Goss declined to comment on Thursday evening. ...... One American official familiar with the matter cautioned that the e-mail messages were merely the account of one unnamed C.I.A. official, not the results of a formal investigation.
“It’s a little risky to draw cosmic conclusions from something like that,” he said
The world is recovering from an economic battering; spring is here; shops are reopening; baseball season is starting; everyone is too busy to do more than say, "Didn't we already know all that? Wasn't that a different administration? Don't we have other enemies by now? Wasn't that all in the past. Get over it."
Shrug.
