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De tweekleppige schelpdieren van het witte Huis omhoog op de CIA dekking-omhoog
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Het witte Huis zei Maandag het geen vragen over de vernietigende de ondervragingsbanden van de CIA van terrorismeverdachten zou beantwoorden, die aan de gang zijnde onderzoeken aanhalen van wat wat dekking-omhooggaand hebben geroepen.
De woordvoerder Dana Perino zei dat de officiële advocaat van President George W Bush om een geen-commentaarbeleid had verzocht terwijl de Afdeling van de Rechtvaardigheid en het Centrale Agentschap van de Intelligentie de het sudderen controverse onderzochten.
„Tot dat proces zich uitwerkt, ga ik hun verzoek aanhangen,“ zij vertelde verslaggevers. „Ik denk dat dat aangewezen is, en ik zal het.“ aanhangen
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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