Wednesday, March 21, 2018

CIA Destroys Tapes of (Business) Meeting

Gina Haspel is the new appointee to become CIA Director. She believed that tapes of the interrogation of prisoners in the aftermath of 9/11 were like 'business meetings' and they didn't need to be retained.

https://thinkprogress.org/cia-tried-to-argue-torture-sessions-are-meetings-to-destroy-videotapes-3acc130ae036/

"Remarkably, the CIA argued that it did not need to preserve videotapes of its "enhanced interrogations" — torture sessions with suspects that involved methods like wall slams, confinement boxes, and waterboarding — because they were like formal government meetings, and therefore less stringent guidelines applied when it came to preserving records of such a "meeting.""

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