Comments on: CIA Does Not Have Transcripts of the Interrogations from the Destroyed Tapes http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/13/cia-does-not-have-transcripts-of-the-interrogations-from-the-destroyed-tapes/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Iranian Ajax http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/13/cia-does-not-have-transcripts-of-the-interrogations-from-the-destroyed-tapes/#comment-3644 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:50:19 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/13/cia-does-not-have-transcripts-of-the-interrogations-from-the-destroyed-tapes/#comment-3644 I just have a question for the good professor. If you could please reply to my email I would greatly appreciate it: iranianajax@yahoo.com

Here is my question: I don’t buy for a second that John Kiriakou is coming out and talking about the CIA tapes on his own. I say this for several reasons:

1. the Agency may be doing this in a public relations ploy to better its image: Kiriakou has not put the agency in a bad light.

2. It may be beneficial to let the Al Qaeda leadership know that Zubaydah has talked – and gave up “corroborated” information – this may be targetting their operational security.

3. Kiriakou – if you listen to him carefully – is equivocal about waterboarding (sounds like a sport, to me). He doesn’t come out and say, YES IT IS BAD…..he says, yes it is torture but that is not to say that I disagree with what we did to Zubaydah.

Do you think that he has “not had contact with the CIA” as he said on the Abrams interview on MSNBC?

Hope you are well.

=Iranian Ajax

]]> By: Mr. Cheeseburger 9000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/13/cia-does-not-have-transcripts-of-the-interrogations-from-the-destroyed-tapes/#comment-3632 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:37:33 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/13/cia-does-not-have-transcripts-of-the-interrogations-from-the-destroyed-tapes/#comment-3632 It’s hard when everyone’s hands are dirty. Do you think Pres. Bush has the chutzpah to call for an independent prosecutor? After all, what are the democrats going to do? Hold hearings? For what? I don’t see the presidential candidates saying anything — not even the obligatory lip service — to the larger issues at play: the abuse of power by the government.

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