Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions
Top Bush CIA officials, including Tenet's successors as CIA director, Porter Goss and Gen. Michael Hayden, strongly lobbied for the IG report to be kept secret from the public. They argued that its release would damage America's reputation around the world, could damage CIA morale, and would tip off terrorists regarding American interrogation tactics. "Justice has had the complete document since 2004, and their career prosecutors have reviewed it carefully ... Full Story »
Posted by John Louden - via Marc Ambinder, Technorati, Newsweek
I always believed that the Bush administration and specifically under the direction of the Vice President far exceeded legal grounds. I'm sure that in so doing we gained knowledge of important facts, it is a given that we also received a lot of information that sent us on witch hunts as those jailed would say anything to get the torture to stop.