Wait a minute. Wait a God damned minute here. Am I the only one that can put 2 and 2 together? I post about this article, and not two minutes later, I come across this dandy little number.
According to this CNN article, Rockefeller is going to hold hearings about the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing "waterboarding".
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller told reporters Friday that he is “inclined” to hold hearings as soon as next week on news of the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes.
The revelation this week that the intelligence agency had destroyed 2002 video recordings of the interrogation of Al Qaeda suspects that may have involved the controversial “waterboarding” technique of terror suspects drew criticism from both sides of the aisle.
Rockefeller, who was ranking Democrat at the time, did not attend initial briefing on the tapes, held shortly after they were made, but said he learned about the tapes’ existence shortly afterwards. “[The CIA] destroyed it without letting us know, without asking our permission, without consulting, without informing us in any way,” he added. “They just did what the CIA likes to do.”
But according to this Washington Post article, Rockefeller was one of the few people who was briefed about the program 5 YEARS AGO! Regardless of the video tapes, he knew what the CIA was doing back then and said nothing.
With one known exception, no formal objections were raised by the lawmakers briefed about the harsh methods during the two years in which waterboarding was employed, from 2002 to 2003, said Democrats and Republicans with direct knowledge of the matter. The lawmakers who held oversight roles during the period included Pelosi and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), as well as Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan).
Then he goes on to say some damning things to take the heat off himself:
Said Rockefeller, “I’ll tell you I’m really sick of this. I’m really angry about it. It’s the manipulation of the Congress.
“The use of two people out of the Senate, two people out of the House, because nobody else can be told and they say… ‘oh! They’re briefed.”
But Senator, you WERE briefed! So, tell me, which is it Senator? Are you lying not to take the heat off you (most likely) or did you have a problem then and decided to say nothing for the last 5 years?
Travis
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