Bush White House Wasn’t Exactly Adamant About Destroying CIA Interrogation Tapes

12:40 am EST December 11th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

No kidding. I can just imagine all the crap we’re going to find after this gang leaves the White House. The stink is going to make Dick Nixon look like a saint by comparison. The next president will have to use liberal quantities of Lysol on the entire executive compound.

The former intelligence official acknowledged that there had been nearly two years of debate among government agencies about what to do with the tapes, and that lawyers within the White House and the Justice Department had in 2003 advised against a plan to destroy them. But the official said that C.I.A. officials had continued to press the White House for a firm decision, and that the C.I.A. was never given a direct order not to destroy the tapes.

“They never told us, ‘Hell, no,’” he said. “If somebody had said, ‘You cannot destroy them,’ we would not have destroyed them.”

The #1 Rule for the Bush Administration: If they say something, don’t believe them.

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