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白宮在CIA包庇沉默起來
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它不會回答關於恐怖主義嫌疑犯CIA的毀壞的審訊磁帶的問題的白宮認為星期一，援引持續的對什麼進行調查一些稱包庇。
發言人Dana Perino說喬治・ W布什總統的正式律師請求沒有評論政策，當司法部和中央情報局調查了煨的爭論時。
「直到那處理工作，我遵守他們的請求」，她告訴了記者。 「我認為那是適當的，并且我將遵守它」。
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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