I was surfing around reviewing the stories I follow, having been sort of preoccuppied with the Destroying of the CIA Interrogation Tapes of late, and I ran across this story about the Legion of Christ. I recognized the name from an article in our weekly paper some time back as having purchased a tiny school, […]
Valerie Plame flick, CIA thriller, to debut at Cannes Washington Post by: Jeff Stein April 24, 2010 Talk about making lemonade from a lemon: Former undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame gets a star turn next month at the Cannes Film Festival with the debut of “Fair Game,” based on the ordeal she and diplomat husband […]
In Dick Cheney’s lessons from history… I began to list some of the examples from Vice President Cheney’s past that he carried through into his Vice Presidency which might have been models for those under him. There were other examples for Jose Rodriguez [who ordered the CIA Tapes destroyed on November 9, 2005] – for […]
So there’s this question on the table, "Why Were CIA Interrogation Tapes Destroyed?" Perhaps the answer might be found in some examples from the higher-ups: Watergate Scandal While one might have hoped that the lesson from the Watergate Scandal might be to avoid illegal dirty tricks in an election campaign, what Dick Cheney seemed to […]
Why Were CIA Interrogation Tapes Destroyed? Time by Robert Baer April 22, 2010 I haven’t been able to clear up the mystery either, beyond the fact that a former CIA officer aware of the details of the 2002 interrogation of the two al-Qaeda suspects told me that the tapes’ images were "horrific." He believes that […]
In recent days, I’ve joined the others who have pored over the ACLU FOIA Documents about the destruction of the tapes of Abu Zubaydah’s interrogation. It’s kind of like a hobby. Some long awaited document set gets released, and we learn a little bit more about the zanny antics of the Bush Administration. Sometimes it’s […]
Pressure mounts on Cardinal Brady as Kildare Bishop quits 23 April 2010 Bishop James Moriarty issued his call after Pope Benedict XVI yesterday officially confirmed acceptance of his resignation, offered last December in the wake of public fury at the shocking findings of the Murphy investigation into the archdiocese of Dublin. “The decision to offer […]
Why Were the Torture Tapes Destroyed? By: emptywheel April 22, 2010 … I am, however, interested in the question he ends his piece with: why was CIA–and not DOD–tasked with these interrogations? But what’s really too bad is that Durham hasn’t been tasked with explaining the broader mystery of why, in the first place, the […]
Pope accepts resignation of third Irish bishop Reuters April 22, 2010 VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict has accepted the resignation of Bishop James Moriarty, the Vatican said Thursday, bringing to three the number of Irish bishops who have stepped down due to the sexual abuse crisis. Moriarty tendered his resignation in December, after an official […]