Posted on 01/02/2008 11:36:32 AM PST by montag813
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Now there is a major headline that doesn’t speak volumes.
Cute! This will out some REAL CIA field operatives, unlike
Plame!!! F...ing Democrats!
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes and Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey appointed an outside prosecutor to oversee the case.
The CIA acknowledged last month that it destroyed videos of officers using tough interrogation methods while questioning two al-Qaida suspects. The acknowledgment sparked a congressional inquiry and a preliminary investigation by Justice.
"The Department's National Security Division has recommended, and I have concluded, that there is a basis for initiating a criminal investigation of this matter, and I have taken steps to begin that investigation," Mukasey said in a statement released Wednesday.
Mukasey named John Durham, a federal prosecutor in Connecticut, to oversee the case.
Mukasey named John Durham, a federal prosecutor in Connecticut, to oversee the case.
Oh for crying out loud....
Still no investigation of Chinagate?
Who is John Durham and what is his political affilation?
“Still no investigation of Chinagate?”
Or a criminal probe into who leaked top secret information to the NY Slimes.
The CIA has done everything it can to undermine Bush. Perhaps this is a payback?
That’s news OH PLease LOL!
Yawn.
Typical hysterical Democrat Tempest in a Teapot.
And we should care that the CIA destroyed the tapes because ... ?
The Tom Delay show trial of 2006 fizzled (Ronnie Earle is stepping down with no resolution and no trial) and they have to ramp up a new “culture of corruption” issue for 2008.
They will probably resort to torture to get to the bottom of this.
The Left compiles their Iraq war dead body count.
What is the Democrat Congress “investigation” count at now? Has it hit 1,000 investigations yet?
The wisdom here....is that two wrongs don’t make a right. Once they opened this stupid door of interrogation and water-boarding, things were set for this event to occur. The second wrong...to have made tapes of the event (audio would have been sufficent, but they weren’t even that smart). So we now put ourselves in the shoes of the interrogation team and second-guess every single detail...which is what the team eventually figured out...and then considered what future presidents would have done to put them in prison. Given the choice...I’d rather face a hostile senate committee over the loss of the tapes....than face jail-time from self-incriminating myself via the tapes in a real court of law.
I have no pity for the CIA crews....they were stupid enough to start the interrogation mess...so they will have to enjoy the rest of the game to be played out. The amusing thing is that in ten years...no one will remember any of this...it won’t even appear on jeopardy.
Durham, a well renowned federal prosecutor was hand picked in 1998 by Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate allegations that, for decades, FBI agents and police officers had been compromised by the mob. Durham soon discovered that FBI Special Agent John Connelly had assisted the mob in at least three murders. Durham successfully prosecuted these cases and earned praise from his colleagues for his integrity and perfectionism.
After gangs took over the streets of Hartford in the early 1990, Durham was appointed to a joint Federal, State and local gang task force. As supervising prosecutor for the Federal Northern Violent Crimes Task Force, Durham oversaw numerous federal investigations and prosecutions, crippling the gangs.
White liberals need to be appeased.
Not like this kind of stuff doesn’t happen in US prisons every day, but white liberals can’t identify with Americans, the need a foreign “other” at safe distance.
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