Nessun'immunità, nessuna testimonianza per il funzionario di CIA

Da Scott Shane    Washington - Jose A. Il Jr. del Rodriguez, l'ex funzionario dell'agenzia di intelligenza centrale che ha ordinato la distruzione dell'interrogazione registra in 2005, non sarà tenuto per comparire il mercoledì ad un'udienza congressuale chiusa sulla materia ma può essere denominato per testimoniare più successivamente, un funzionario riassunto sull'inchiesta detta lunedì.

    Sig. Rodriguez, che ha condotto il servizio clandestino dell'agenzia in 2005 e recentemente pensionato, ha richiesto l'immunità prima che accosentisse per testimoniare prima del comitato di intelligenza della Camera. The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into the destruction of the videotapes, which recorded harsh interrogations of two suspected Qaeda figures.

    The committee has made no decision on a possible grant of immunity, so it postponed Mr. Rodriguez’s appearance. He remains under subpoena, however, and the committee may call him later.

    The only C.I.A. witness currently scheduled to appear Wednesday at the closed hearing is John A. Rizzo, the agency’s acting general counsel, who held that job when the tapes were destroyed.

    Committee members want to ask Mr. Rizzo what guidance lawyers inside and outside the agency gave on the possible destruction of the tapes. They also want to question him about why the House and Senate Intelligence Committees were not officially informed of the destruction when it happened, and whether agency officials deliberately concealed the existence of the tapes from the Sept. 11 Commission, as the commission’s leaders have said.

    Mr. Rodriguez has told colleagues he consulted two agency lawyers, who told him that he had the authority to destroy the tapes and that it would not be illegal.

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