Sunday, December 09, 2007




US credibility damaged by CIA tape affair: lawmakers
by Dan De Luce Sun Dec 9, 5:38 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers on Sunday blasted the CIA for destroying interrogation tapes of terror suspects, saying it would damage America's standing and feed suspicions about possible torture.
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A day after the Justice Department said it had opened a preliminary inquiry into the affair along with the CIA's internal watchdog, presidential hopefuls and lawmakers from both parties condemned the disposal of the videotapes.

"What this does in a larger sense is it harms the credibility and the moral standing of America in the world again," said Senator John McCain, a Republican contender for the White House who was abused as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

"There will be skepticism and cynicism all over the world about how we treat prisoners and whether we practice torture or not," McCain told Fox television.



-as usual, the first case is the case, the others are irrelevant, or at least not as important
-america has to determine if and how wants to honor to the geneva convention has ratified, or if wants to witdraw from its ratification, and state this loud and clear, so the whole world knows what is the position of this country on such issues
-the first case, was abu ghraib, where the world famous pictures did the damage referred to, one or one hundred cases won't change history, history has been already made, history does not go back on time, a couple of new tapes are quite insignificant.
-Also, two years seems a heck of a lot of time, if this things were so important why they were not subpoenad within a month or two ?.
-Reading mind of politicians, on what to keep or dump does not seem a great criteria for national document filing, and the other side of the story is that generally central agencies worldwide pile up so much junk they can swim in it, so periodically something has to go, to make room for more important stuff.
-Unless the solution becomes building a zillion of yucca mountain or area 51 to store "everything" for each of the central agencies, the arguing looks just like another search for scapegoats outside DC.

... amen ...



# posted by intcoex : 8:28 PM




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