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Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:25 pm**

No charges in CIA waterboarding video destruction

Jose Rodriguez Former clandestine CIA officer Jose Rodriguez approved the destruction of 92 interrogation tapes

No criminal charges will be filed against CIA officials involved in destroying videotapes of harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects, the US Justice Department has said.

The CIA destroyed 92 tapes of al-Qaeda operatives Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Nashiri being waterboarded in 2005.

Jose Rodriguez, a former clandestine officer, approved the move out of concern the tapes could harm the CIA.

The investigation has spanned nearly three years.

Mr Rodriguez's order to destroy the tapes, which were held in a safe in a secret Thailand prison where the two al-Qaeda members were interrogated, countered instructions given to him by CIA lawyers and the White House.

Investigations will continue to help determine whether Central Intelligence Agency officers went beyond the legal advice given to them on the treatment of suspects, an official told the Associated Press news agency

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11723140

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2010 10:43 pm**

And there are people who still think that Obama is a liberal.

No charges for a guy who ordered the destruction of evidence pertaining to torture. No charges for the guys who made torture the official policy of the United States.

That's liberal?

Of course, to the American pseudo-conservative right, anyone to the left of Robert DePugh is a liberal. And anyone to the left of Mitch The Liar McConnell is a socialist.

Posted: **Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:56 am**

What were the CIA doing interrogating middle eastern "terrorists" in a Thai prison in the first place, if not for iit being a place they could get away with torture..

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