At a closed briefing in 2003, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee raised no objection to a C.I.A. plan to destroy videotapes of brutal interrogations, according to secret documents released Monday.Of course he denies it. His defense is along the lines of "they told me that they were going to destroy the tapes and I was in `receive mode'."
The senator, Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, also rejected a proposal to have his committee conduct its own assessment of the agency’s harsh interrogation methods, which included wall-slamming and waterboarding, the documents say.
So if a mob boss is in "receive mode" when his subordinates discuss whacking someone, then he is off the hook for any charges? I don't think so.
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