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Palourdes de la Maison Blanche vers le haut sur la CIA cover-up
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La Maison Blanche dite lundi il ne répondrait pas à des questions au sujet des bandes détruisantes de l'interrogation de la CIA des suspects de terrorisme, citant des recherches continues sur ce que certains ont appelé un cover-up.
Le porte-parole Dana Perino a dit que l'avocat officiel du Président George W Bush avait demandé aucun-commentent politique tandis que l'agence de département de justice et d'intelligence centrale examinait la polémique fermentante.
« Jusqu'à ce que ce processus se fonctionne dehors, je vais adhérer à leur demande, » elle ai dit des journalistes. « Je pense que c'est approprié, et j'adhérerai à lui. »
When a reporter noted that the White House has similarly stonewalled questions about other potentially embarrassing issues, and suggested that such a policy was politically expedient, Perino bristled.
“I can see why that cynicism that usually drifts from this room could come up in this regard. What I can tell you is that I try my best to get you as much information as I can, and in this regard I’ve been asked by our Counsel’s office not to comment, and I’m not going to,” she said.
But she repeated that Bush had no recollection of being told about the tapes or about their destruction in 2005 until briefed last week following media reports.
Some of Bush’s Democratic critics and human rights groups have denounced the decision as an attempt to cover up interrogation practices widely seen as torture — despite Washington’s insistence that it does not torture.
The videotapes, made in 2002, reportedly showed harsh interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who were among the first suspects interrogated by the CIA after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks.
CIA director Michael Hayden, who was not leading the agency when the tapes were destroyed, has said that doing so was necessary to avoid having the recordings leak to the public, revealing the identity of CIA questioners.
(AFP)
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