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CIA may have more interrogation tapes, detainee's lawyer suggestsJohn
Byrne
Published: Tuesday December 11, 2007
White House tacitly approved destruction of CIA waterboarding tapes,
former official says
Contrary to the official CIA line, the lawyer for a captured prisoner
revealed that her client reported seeing videocameras in interrogation
rooms and on the wall of the prison in 2003 -- a year after the CIA
said interrogations had stopped, suggesting there may be yet more
tapes.
"The former prisoner who reported seeing cameras, Muhammad Bashmilah
of Yemen, was seized by Jordanian intelligence agents in 2003 and
turned over to the C.I.A., according to an investigation by Amnesty
International, the human rights advocacy organization," the New York
Times reported Tuesday. "He was flown from Jordan to Afghanistan in
October 2003 and held there until April 2004, when he was flown by
plane and helicopter to a C.I.A. jail in an unidentified country,
Amnesty found. Mr. Bashmilah and two other Yemeni men held with him
were flown to Yemen in May 2005 and later released."
"Meg Satterthwaite, a director of the International Human Rights
Clinic at New York University who is representing Mr. Bashmilah in a
lawsuit, said Mr. Bashmilah described cameras both in his cells and in
interrogation rooms, some on tripods and some on the wall," the paper
added. She said his descriptions of his imprisonment, in hours of
conversation in Yemen and by phone this year, were lucid and detailed.
This comes in contrast to a statement from CIA Director Gen. Michael
Hayden, who told agency employees in a message Tuesday that
"videotaping stopped in 2002," after officials "determined that its
documentary reporting was full and exacting, removing any need for
tapes."
What's more, the White House was pressed by the agency on numerous
occasions as to whether the existing tapes -- showing waterboarding of
detainees -- should be kept.
Even after two years of debate among government agencies, the White
House declined to order the CIA to retain videotapes showing hundreds
of hours of interrogations of two terror suspects, according to
officials who spoke under condition of anonymity in Tuesday's New York
Times.
"They never told us, 'Hell, no,'" the source, described as a former
senior intelligence official, said. "If somebody had said, 'You cannot
destroy them,' we would not have destroyed them."
The White House and the Justice Department advised against destroying
the tapes in 2003. But after two years of inter-agency deliberation
and CIA pressure on the White House to deliver a clear answer, the
tapes were destroyed after clearance from lawyers from the CIA's
clandestine service.
Jose Rodriguez, the former chief of the then-Directorate of
Operations, authorized the tapes destruction.
The official quoted said Rodriguez destroyed the tapes because he was
concerned for the safety of the CIA agents shown on the recordings.
Read the full Times article here.
Don'tchaknow? Aint it a hoot?
WEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CIA may have more interrogation tapes, detainee's lawyer suggestsJohn
Byrne
Published: Tuesday December 11, 2007
White House tacitly approved destruction of CIA waterboarding tapes,
former official says
Contrary to the official CIA line, the lawyer for a captured prisoner
revealed that her client reported seeing videocameras in interrogation
rooms and on the wall of the prison in 2003 -- a year after the CIA
said interrogations had stopped, suggesting there may be yet more
tapes.
"The former prisoner who reported seeing cameras, Muhammad Bashmilah
of Yemen, was seized by Jordanian intelligence agents in 2003 and
turned over to the C.I.A., according to an investigation by Amnesty
International, the human rights advocacy organization," the New York
Times reported Tuesday. "He was flown from Jordan to Afghanistan in
October 2003 and held there until April 2004, when he was flown by
plane and helicopter to a C.I.A. jail in an unidentified country,
Amnesty found. Mr. Bashmilah and two other Yemeni men held with him
were flown to Yemen in May 2005 and later released."
"Meg Satterthwaite, a director of the International Human Rights
Clinic at New York University who is representing Mr. Bashmilah in a
lawsuit, said Mr. Bashmilah described cameras both in his cells and in
interrogation rooms, some on tripods and some on the wall," the paper
added. She said his descriptions of his imprisonment, in hours of
conversation in Yemen and by phone this year, were lucid and detailed.
This comes in contrast to a statement from CIA Director Gen. Michael
Hayden, who told agency employees in a message Tuesday that
"videotaping stopped in 2002," after officials "determined that its
documentary reporting was full and exacting, removing any need for
tapes."
What's more, the White House was pressed by the agency on numerous
occasions as to whether the existing tapes -- showing waterboarding of
detainees -- should be kept.
Even after two years of debate among government agencies, the White
House declined to order the CIA to retain videotapes showing hundreds
of hours of interrogations of two terror suspects, according to
officials who spoke under condition of anonymity in Tuesday's New York
Times.
"They never told us, 'Hell, no,'" the source, described as a former
senior intelligence official, said. "If somebody had said, 'You cannot
destroy them,' we would not have destroyed them."
The White House and the Justice Department advised against destroying
the tapes in 2003. But after two years of inter-agency deliberation
and CIA pressure on the White House to deliver a clear answer, the
tapes were destroyed after clearance from lawyers from the CIA's
clandestine service.
Jose Rodriguez, the former chief of the then-Directorate of
Operations, authorized the tapes destruction.
The official quoted said Rodriguez destroyed the tapes because he was
concerned for the safety of the CIA agents shown on the recordings.
Read the full Times article here.
