Porter Goss, director of the CIA from 2004 to 2006, previously gave the impression he was dismayed when his operations chief, Jose Rodriguez, ordered the destruction of dozens of videotapes documenting the brutal interrogations of al-Qaeda detainees. Perhaps not so:
Shortly after the tapes were destroyed at the order
Daphne’s already blown the kazoo and hung the streamers for today’s release of the 2004 CIA inspector general report on the agency’s use of torture “enhanced interrogation” techniques. We’ll be covering this throughout the day. But pay attention as well to what might not get released today: another More…
Bob Graham (D-Fla.), the former chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, expands on his account of what the CIA told him about “enhanced interrogation” techniques on Sept. 27, 2002 to Marcy Wheeler. Porter Goss, the former chairman of the House intelligence committee and CIA director, declined to do the More…
Congratulations, Leon Panetta. When you decided, unexpectedly, to become President Obama’s CIA director, did you anticipate spending one of your first major addresses defusing an escalation in congressional-CIA acrimony? His message to a Los Angeles foreign policy group yesterday became the second part of his response to Rep. Nancy Pelosi More…
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