Oh the Horror! CIA Interrogation Tapes Destroyed...Yawn

So, the poisonous Dick "Pig Eyes" Durbin and his fellow idiots, Jane Harman and Jay Rockefeller are all a-twitter about the "scandalous action" of the CIA destroying interrogation tapes to protect the information contained in them, including the identities of the members of the CIA who were doing the interrogations...GOOD! I hope the heck so. That's what they are supposed to do, protect American secrets.

The Liberal idiots in the press just can't say "illegally destroyed" tapes often enough. The problem is, they were not "illegally destroyed," they were destroyed directly in accordance with the law. Of course you really have to look hard to find that out in the Paleo-media and you will never hear it admitted by a Democrat in front of a camera. Why...that would be telling the truth, something Democrats and Liberals in general are loathe to do.

Here's the Reuters account:

Democrats' fury grows over destroyed CIA tapes

By Randall Mikkelsen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats reacted furiously on Friday to the CIA's disclosure that it had made and destroyed videotapes of terrorism interrogations, as leading lawmakers called for a Justice Department inquiry.

The White House said President George W. Bush did not recollect being told about the CIA tapes or their destruction before Thursday, when he was briefed by the CIA director.

Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Dick Durbin of Illinois wrote Attorney General Michael Mukasey to request an investigation into whether the CIA violated obstruction-of-justice laws by destroying the tapes.

---snip----Here's the clincher for Dick "Dursban:"

"The CIA apparently withheld information about the existence of these videotapes from official proceedings, including the 9/11 Commission and a federal court," Durbin said in the letter. "It is the Justice Department's role to determine whether the law was violated.

What to do? What to do? The evil Republicans are covering up their evil doing...the evil president is hiding something!!!

The Democrat idiots are singing their song again "We're three little lamb[aster]s who've lost our way, blah, blah, blah.

But wait! Something's missing. Why am I so blase about all this? Because if you investigate the facts carefully enough you will discover the truth...a concept alien to liberal idiots and especially Dickie Boy...Congress knew all about this when it was done. Let me repeat...THEY ALREADY KNEW ABOUT THIS! This folderol, this self-righteous indignation is nothing but another act in the same old Democrat play.

You see the London Daily Telegraph also has this story, but buried deep in the bowels of the article is this little tidbit that somehow escaped Reuters News Service "reporters:"

CIA 'illegally destroyed' interrogation tapes

By Tom Chivers and agencies
Last Updated: 2:03pm GMT 07/12/2007

The US intelligence agency the CIA has been accused of criminally disposing of evidence of the "extreme" interrogation of terror suspects.

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Mr Hayden said the tapes, which were made in 2002, were destroyed out of fear that they would be leaked, compromising the identities of US interrogators.

The disclosure has brought condemnation from US politicians as well as from the charity Human Rights Watch.

The decision to destroy the tapes was taken in "the absence of any legal or internal reason to keep them", Mr Hayden wrote in an internal statement obtained by The Associated Press.

He claiming that the tapes were "no longer of intelligence value and not relevant to any internal, legislative or judicial inquiries."

"The tapes posed a serious security risk," he continued. "Were they ever to leak, they would permit identification of your CIA colleagues who had served in the programme, exposing them and their families to retaliation from al-Qa'eda and its sympathisers."

He added that the leaders of the Congress and Senate Intelligence Committees were made aware both of the existence of the tapes and the plan to destroy them, and that the CIA's internal watchdog viewed the tapes and declared the interrogation practices legal.

Oh! I bet that one hurts, doesn't it Dick-ie Boy; to be found out to be attempting to deceive the American people right from the very outset?

Hey Dick, you're a liar! You're a liar! You're a liar.

Here's more:

Congress denounces destroyed CIA tapes
Director Michael Hayden said keeping the coverage posed threat to interrogators.

By Pamela Hess
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The CIA videotaped its interrogations of two top terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes three years later out of fear they would leak to the public and compromise the identities of U.S. questioners, the director of the agency told employees Thursday.

The disclosure brought immediate condemnation from Capitol Hill and from a human rights group that charged the spy agency's action amounted to criminal destruction of evidence.

The Senate Intelligence Committee promised a full review of the situation.

---snip---Here you go!--

Rep. Jane Harman of El Segundo, then the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, was one of only four members of Congress in 2003 informed of the tapes' existence and the CIA's intention to ultimately destroy them.
"I told the CIA that destroying videotapes of interrogations was a bad idea and urged them in writing not to do it," Harman said. While key lawmakers were briefed on the CIA's intention to destroy the tapes, they were not notified two years later when the spy agency went through with the plan. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said the committee only learned of the tapes' destruction in November 2006.

Hey Jane, maybe they disagreed with your opinion, whether it was in writing or not. Maybe they were more concerned about keeping the leakiest party in American history from divulging the identities of CIA operatives.

Why all the outrage over the non-covert Valerie Plame "exposure" (let's see that occurred on the cover of Vanity Fair, didn't it?) and not over these other actual covert operatives? Do I detect a hint of hypocrisy here?

This whole cooked up outrage is an attempt to distract from the fact that Democrats are about to capitulate on funding the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with no strings attached. No timetables, no promises to withdraw troops, no troop "redeployments, nothing-zip-zero-nada-riente, no pro quo for their quid. That's got to hurt!

I mean here you are, just prior to the 2006 elections, promising your voters all kind of pie in the sky stuff you will accomplish in the next Congress if only they will vote for you and here you in the twelfth month of your reign with nothing to show for it but an increase in the minimum wage. There are more troops in Iraq than when you took control. Those troops are winning the war in spite of every road-block you could put in their paths; nothing but a bunch of pathetic losers. Whose incompetence becomes more apparent with each passing day. So, what do you do? You do what any good Liberal idiot would do, you try to divert the public's attention.

Democrats have been desperately trying to find camouflage for their complete surrender to the truth that, in spite of everything they could do to prevent it, we are winning the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan. This manufactured scandal is just the old magician's trick of trying to make you look in one direction so you don't see what is actually happening.

Well, Pig Eyes Durbin, that dog won't hunt. The harder the Democrat liars try, the worse this is going to look for them.

Man-oh-man this is funny stuff!

Long Live Our American Republic!!! [In spite of the Democrats]

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