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    Default CIA Destroyed Nearly 100 Interrogation Tapes!

    Uh, oh.
    The Central intelligence Agency (CIA) has destroyed 92 tapes of interviews conducted with terror suspects, a US government lawyer has admitted.

    The agency had previously said that it had destroyed only two tapes.

    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a lawsuit against the CIA to seek details of the interrogations of terror suspects.
    For the moment, lets ignore the question of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and take a look at several aspects of this which are not good. First of all, the destruction of those tapes, it would seem to me, would weaken any efforts to prosecute those detained. Next, given that many of the folks captured speak a dialect/language that are fairly obscure, I'd think that you'd want to keep those tapes for a long period of time, just to make sure that your language experts can review them and confirm that what the prisoner is saying has been translated accurately. Third, you'd want to have those tapes around as reference/bargaining chip material when dealing with people who'd been mentioned in those tapes. If terrorist suspect "A" names individual "B" as being part of a terrorist cell, and some time later you capture "B," who denies that he has anything to do with terrorism, you can then whip out the video of "A" spilling the beans.

    There are, of course, more issues related to this, and I'll let the folks here hash them out as they see fit.
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    Default Re: CIA Destroyed Nearly 100 Interrogation Tapes!

    I have a really hard time seeing torture ever being prosecuted in any real way in the US. Lots of people actively support it, and a big bulk of the rest don't want to think that we do anything like that, so they just ignore it. Our boys would never do that. Too many people in government (not just Republicans) have pretty much signed off on torture, if not actively advocated for it, and they won't see it prosecuted for fear of looking bad.

    As long as there is the constant call of "move on, move on, nothing to see here" these abuses will never really be brought to justice. How many times has a country actually made amends for the evils they did without being forced to at the barrel of a gun?

    People will hem and haw about these tapes, but nothing really will come of it. What has come from any other "bombshell" revelation about torture ordered by the last administration (and still happening today)?

    But hey, maybe Obama will surprise me.

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    Default Re: CIA Destroyed Nearly 100 Interrogation Tapes!

    If the methods can be 'outsourced' in a manner that is untraceable if the shit hits the fan, should that be allowed?

    If defeating the enemy means adopting their tactics, should we be fighting that kind of war? Are there practical alternatives?
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    Default Re: CIA Destroyed Nearly 100 Interrogation Tapes!

    Quote Originally posted by ivan astikov
    If the methods can be 'outsourced' in a manner that is untraceable if the shit hits the fan, should that be allowed?

    If defeating the enemy means adopting their tactics, should we be fighting that kind of war? Are there practical alternatives?
    The good guys never resort to using bad guy tactics. Especially if we continue to crow about democracy and freedom.

    Right now we need to STFU.
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    Default Re: CIA Destroyed Nearly 100 Interrogation Tapes!

    Quote Originally posted by jali
    Quote Originally posted by ivan astikov
    If the methods can be 'outsourced' in a manner that is untraceable if the shit hits the fan, should that be allowed?

    If defeating the enemy means adopting their tactics, should we be fighting that kind of war? Are there practical alternatives?
    The good guys never resort to using bad guy tactics. Especially if we continue to crow about democracy and freedom.

    Right now we need to STFU.
    Even at the expense of letting security forces actions go unquestioned, as long as it "gets the job done"?
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    Default Re: CIA Destroyed Nearly 100 Interrogation Tapes!

    Only 92 tapes?
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