Destroying The Tapes

She told them not to do it. They asked for advice and ignored it. That, my friends, is the ultimate in bad bureaucracy.

Harman Warned against Destroying Tapes in 2003

The CIA’s initial defense for destroying the videotapes showing interrogations of Al Qaeda detainees was that they’d briefed members of Congress about their intention to do this long ago. To which, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the former chair of the House intelligence committee responded: yes, we were told, and I told them not to do it. She said that she’d made that explicit in [...]

Tags: Bush Administration, CIA, Waterboarding