Apparently the CIA has destroyed some tapes to "protect" the identities of it's members who could be "retaliated against" by terrarists™ for their participation in torture. The reality is that these tapes, which by the way were never acknowledged when Judges and trial counsels asked and demanded their production in court proceedings were destroyed to potentially save the torturers from prosecution.

Now if you're not torturing, why the need to lie about it? Certainly a cover-up is bad form...why not hold a seance and ask the ghost of Tricky Dick.

The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Al Qaeda operatives in the agency's custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about the C.I.A's secret detention program, according to current and former government officials.

The videotapes showed agency operatives in 2002 subjecting terror suspects - including Abu Zubaydah, the first detainee in C.I.A. custody - to severe interrogation techniques. They were destroyed in part because officers were concerned that tapes documenting controversial interrogation methods could expose agency officials to greater risk of legal jeopardy, several officials said.
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The C.I.A. said today that the decision to destroy the tapes had been made "within the C.I.A. itself," and they were destroyed to protect the safety of undercover officers and because they no longer had intelligence value. The agency was headed at the time by Porter J. Goss. Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Goss declined this afternoon to comment on the destruction of the tapes.

I guess that the tapes might have also put lie to yet another of Preznit Prevarication's convenient fictions, "we don't torture", because if we don't why does anyone need to destroy the evidence?

Hey, Nancy...Yo!: Impeachment is the Cure. Oh yeah, I might have mentioned that before.

Oh, for the days of Rosemary Woods.