Nenhum Immunity, nenhum Testimony para o oficial do CIA

Por Scott Shane    Washington - Jose A. O Jr. de Rodriguez, o oficial anterior da agência de inteligência central que requisitou a destruição da interrogação grava em 2005, não será requerido para aparecer em quarta-feira em um hearing congressional closed na matéria mas pode ser chamado para testify mais tarde, um oficial instruído no inquérito dito segunda-feira.

    Sr. Rodriguez, que conduziu ao serviço clandestine da agência em 2005 e aposentado recentemente, exijiu o immunity antes que concordasse testify antes do comitê da inteligência da casa. 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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