Did Pat Roberts (R) order waterboarding tapes destroyed?

[demtenjeep]

The CIA says that Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts ordered key tapes destroyed that showed agency officials waterboarding terror suspect Abu Zubayda.

“Senator Roberts listened carefully and gave his consent,” a summary of the briefing states.

Roberts, who was the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time, says that’s not true.

“At no time did Senator Roberts assent to the destruction of any videotapes,” spokeswoman Sarah Little said.

http://blogs.kansas.com/gov/2010/02/23/roberts-cia-clash-over-whether-kansan-ordered-torture-tapes-destroyed/

[demtenjeep]

1. We are just waiting for the day he is no longer a KS senator

He and Brownback are scum.

[demtenjeep]

2. Here is more

In a Feb. 4, 2003, briefing that included Roberts and one of then-Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller's top staffers, CIA officials told Roberts that they intended to destroy the tapes.


" Pavitt and Muller briefly described the circumstances surrounding the existence of tapes of the Zubayda debriefing," a summary of the briefing says. "Muller indicated that it was our intention to destroy these tapes, which were created in any case as but an aide to the interrogations. ... Senator Roberts listened carefully and gave his consent.”


Roberts said he never signed off on destroying the waterboarding tapes.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33320.html#ixzz0gPwKEJBf