CIA Foresaw Interrogation Issues

[cal04]

Agency Considered Investigations 'Virtually Inevitable'
By Dan Eggen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303249.html?hpid=moreheadlines

The CIA concluded that criminal, administrative or civil investigations stemming from harsh interrogation tactics were "virtually inevitable," leading the agency to seek legal support from the Justice Department, according to a CIA official's statement in court documents filed yesterday.

The CIA said it had identified more than 7,000 pages of classified memos, e-mails and other records relating to its secret prison and interrogation program, but maintained that the materials cannot be released because they relate to, in part, communications between CIA and Justice Department attorneys or discussions with the White House.

Nineteen of those documents were withheld from disclosure specifically because the Bush administration decided they are covered by a "presidential communications privilege," according to the filings, made in federal court in Manhattan. Some were "authored or solicited and received by the President's senior advisors in connection with a decision, or potential decision, to be made by the president."

Although the precise content of the documents is unknown, the agency's statements illustrate the extent to which senior White House officials were involved in decision-making on CIA detentions, interrogations, and renditions, a term for forced transfers of prisoners. These topics were the targets of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by liberal advocacy groups that compelled the CIA's disclosures.

[annabanana]

1. I would have hoped that one, just one

would have come forward earlier. Nonetheless I'm glad that it's getting press.

[seemslikeadream]

2. and Mueller says what they were doing was illegal?

[razors edge]

3. Hey cal04,

Check the link, American torture docs all in one place.

http://www.americantorture.com/documents.html

:hi:

[Disturbed]

4. The Pres of the US approved of Torture.

Busholini is a War Criminal, as are the members & ex members of his Regime.

[razors edge]

5. They are beyond that,

they are traitors to their nation and should be tried and punished accordingly.

The enablers in Congress are fair game as well.

[cal04]

7. thanks for the link DiktatrW

:hi:

[Supersedeas]

6. presidential privilege buts heads with Justice and the Court sides with the butt heads