[Condi] Rice is willing to publicly state that she had no knowledge of the [CIA interrogation] tapes’ destruction in 2005, but won’t do the same on the 2002 interrogations.In addition to Rice, at least five high-ranking administration officials and former officials have disavowed any knowledge of the tapes’ destruction. They have instead placed the blame on Jose Rodriguez, then the CIA’s head of the clandestine division.
The White House is denying that anybody but one CIA official knew anything about the destruction of the interrogation tapes.
The full blame for the destruction of the tapes has fallen on Jose Rodriguez, then the CIA’s head of the clandestine division. Rodriguez reportedly undertook the destruction of the tapes in a unilateral manner, without receiving any instructions from his bosses or giving them advance notice of his actions.
Suuuuuuuure he did.
In an interview last night with ABC News, John Kiriakou — the CIA official who headed the team that interrogated al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah — said that Zubaydah was waterboardedThis isn’t something done willy nilly. It’s not something that an agency officer just wakes up in the morning and decides he’s going to carry out an enhanced technique on a prisoner. This was a policy made at the White House, with concurrence from the National Security Council and Justice Department.
Uh-huh.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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