A Question About Those Destroyed CIA Tapes

David Frum's Diary on National Review ^ | 12/7/2007 | David Frum

[Callahan]

Interesting alternative to the Dems whining. This is some James Bond stuff right here.

[Cicero]

I hadn’t seen this before. Even the bloggers have ignored it, and if it appeared earlier in FR I missed it. Thanks for the post.

[MizSterious]

Interesting indeed. Thanks for the post.

[RDTF]

interesting stuff. Wonder what Laurie Mylroie would say?

[SF Republican]

The House of Saud is an interesting house.

[Callahan]

So did the Saudis take these guys out or did we? Looks to me like the the sheiks cleaned house in a hurry.

[Diogenesis]

Today is the anniversary of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor

Has anyone learned .... anything?

[Yo-Yo]

There is a 2003 Time Magazine article about Posner's book that pretty much matches what is in this post. Seems like a rehash of a four year old book just in time for Christmas gift giving.

[stuartcr]

That a lot of different people pre-emptivate?

[Thrownatbirth]

This is a completely different narrative from the WaPo stories and Ron Suskind's "The One Percent Doctrine" which paints Zubaydah as a hapless, insane man who was tortured relentlessly by the Bush Admin.

I like this story a lot better.

[Callahan]

A rehash that explains why we would destroy the tapes, so it seems pretty relevant.

[roses of sharon]

Can’t wait for the movie!

[txhurl]

bttt

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Nice post!

We’ve always known there was Saudi money going to the terrorists.

Looks like appropriate corrective action has been taken by our “allies”.

[JPJones]

bump

[colorado tanker]

There is a more straightforward explanation. McPain and the Dims are screaming that waterboarding is “torture.” “Torture” was and is a federal felony. They were probably just protecting their people from some overzealous prosecutor trying to give the Dims another Fitzmas by prosecuting the interrogators.

[daku]

If we could only maintain military bases in the middle eastern region ... but not on saudi soil ...

HEY ! wait a minute !

How ‘bout Iraq ??!!?!?!?!

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[HardStarboard]

>>> Wonder what Laurie Mylroie would say?<<<

Bingo. The one intelligence operative that has had things right on Saddam and Islamo-Fascism ever since 1995! Some of the stuff she wrote before 9/11 are stunning in their accuracy about what was to come.

Who Was ramzi Yousef - and why it matters" - 19951996 byLaurie Mylroie

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iraq/956-tni.htm

[Cicero]

Yes, very interesting article. It starts out by saying that the author is a conspiracy theorist, but it goes on to lay out all the important details, and says the book is likely to raise a diplomatic firestorm.

Of course, it didn’t. The whole business was ignored, and it disappeared. The Saudi connection presumably was buried not only by the Democrat terrorist enablers but by the Bush administration. Indeed, its remarkable that Time ever published this much information at all.

I enjoy looking into these conspiracy theories, and I missed this one. I never read Time, but I’m surprised I didn’t hear about this elsewhere. The whole business must have vanished pretty quickly. I did think at the time that the Saudis were involved, but I don’t remember seeing this.

I notice that it was published at the end of August, and I don’t pay much attention to news during summer vacation. By the time I returned to normal life after Labor Day, the story must have basically died, killed by both left and right, working in tandem.