7/9/09-TWD's Agenda For The Day: The Latest Scar On The CIA
Not a good last night and morning for Leon Panetta . More later.
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First The Photos, Now the Videos: Panetta and CIA, Under Obama's Wishes, Banned Cheney/Bush Torture Video Documents From Being Seen
Photo from UPI From Washington Post journalist Jeffrey Smith, who is scared to use the word "torture" apparently in this article, Leon Panetta and the CIA do the job that the Obama Administration wanted it to do: block the release of Cheney era videos showing torture . The Obama administration objected yesterday to the release of certain Bush-era documents that detail the videotaped interrogations of CIA detainees at secret prisons, arguing to a federal judge that doing so would endanger national security and benefit al-Qaeda's recruitment efforts. In an affidavit, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta defended the classification of records describing the contents of the 92 videotapes, their destruction by the CIA in 2005 and what he called "sensitive operational information" about the interrogations. The forced disclosure of such material to the American Civil Liberties Union "could be expected to result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security by inf...