I've put this one on the back burner today, but there have been two developments in the CIA Torture Tape fracas.
First, the two co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission accused the CIA of stonewalling and obstructing the work of the Commission.
Second, Attorney General Mukasey has appointed a prosecutor to look into whether or not the CIA obstructed 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."
Once again, it's the coverup that brings the scumbags down for a little round of personal accountability.
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I wonder whether Mr Durham will be permitted to learn that instructions to destroy the tapes originated outside CIA?
And who will stop him? Mukasey and a beard?
A lot rests with whether Mr. Durham is a loyal party apparatchick or whether he is going to go where the facts lead him and let the chips fall where they may. But since he put a Republican governor in Federal prison, I am cautiously optimistic. Yet all Chimpy has to do is say "everything is classified" and then deny Durham clearances.
Wouldn't your response imply that Mr Mukasey may in fact be a bit more honorable and devoted to the law than wee originally thought when he told Congress he had no idea whether waterboarding was illegal?
Lurch, possibly, but I am not going to concede that as yet. I want to see if they have figured out a way to ensure that Durham only sees what they want him to see.
Mukasey's continuing inability to call waterboarding what it is (torture) still bothers me a lot.
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