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白宫在CIA包庇沉默起来
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它不会回答关于恐怖主义嫌疑犯CIA的毁坏的审讯磁带的问题的白宫认为星期一，援引持续的对什么进行调查一些称包庇。
发言人Dana Perino说乔治· W布什总统的正式律师请求没有评论政策，当司法部和中央情报局调查了煨的争论时。
“直到那处理工作，我遵守他们的请求”，她告诉了记者。 “我认为那是适当的，并且我将遵守它”。
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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