Senate report on CIA torture is one step closer to disappearing

Yahoo News ^ | 3/16/2016 | Michael Isikoff

[mac_truck]

The CIA inspector general’s office — the spy agency’s internal watchdog — has acknowledged it “mistakenly” destroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate torture report at the same time lawyers for the Justice Department were assuring a federal judge that copies of the document were being preserved, Yahoo News has learned.

Although other copies of the report exist, the erasure of the controversial document by the CIA office charged with policing agency conduct has alarmed the U.S. senator who oversaw the torture investigation and reignited a behind-the-scenes battle over whether the full unabridged report should ever be released, according to multiple intelligence community sources familiar with the incident.

The deletion of the document has been portrayed by agency officials to Senate investigators as an “inadvertent” foul-up by the inspector general. In what one intelligence community source described as a series of errors straight “out of the Keystone Cops,” CIA inspector general officials deleted an uploaded computer file with the report and then accidentally destroyed a disk that also contained the document, filled with thousands of secret files about the CIA’s use of “enhanced” interrogation methods.

[thoughtomator]

Rogue agency destroys evidence of its rogue actions, film at 11.

There needs to be a serious discussion of the merits of shutting down the CIA and rolling its legitimate functions into DIA.

Since the Cold War ended, the CIA has essentially been running its own foreign policy, one that has been extremely damaging to US national security.

[fruser1]

All they had to do is to say it was on Hillary’s server.

CIA is under State Dept after all.

[w1andsodidwe]

Give me a break. Private business’s are required to back up computer files Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. This does not pass the smell test to me. Just another government, oops the computer crashed and we lost everything. I don’t think so.

[DIRTYSECRET]

They’re like cops. If you think they’re all goo you got another thing coming.

[Flintlock]

I don’t know.

I don’t WANT to know.

What I DO want is to WIN the goddamn WAR! (NOT like at present.)

[UCANSEE2]

" CIA inspector general officials deleted an uploaded computer file with the report and then accidentally destroyed a disk that also contained the document, filled with thousands of secret files about the CIA’s use of “enhanced” interrogation methods."

One cannot 'accidently' destroy a disk. It's very hard to purposely destroy a disk.

[pepsi_junkie]

It's time someone went to jail for destroying these government records. The IRS, the State Department, the CIA. It's a disgrace and slap in the face to the rule of law. In fact, it shows that there is no law within the government and that is deeply troubling.

Trump, are you listening?

[PhiloBedo]

After all, it worked for the IRS and Hillary.

[DesertRhino]

“Since the Cold War ended, the CIA has essentially been running its own foreign policy, one that has been extremely damaging to US national security.”

Try since the early 1950s.

[thoughtomator]

Seems former CIA Director Bush becoming President really lifted the brakes off and it went into hyperdrive. Notice how frequently the CIA drags us into wars these days - they don’t even bother waiting for the previous one to end before starting a new one. Every last conflict the US has had since Desert Storm has been a CIA operation in one way or another, and none of them have had a positive impact on security.

[stocksthatgoup]

We need to be etching our important documents on marble tablets.

[mac_truck]

Try since the early 1950s.

Yes, I saw your post with the Harry Truman op-ed about CIA earlier.

[dsc]

” Every last conflict the US has had since Desert Storm has been a CIA operation in one way or another”

It has been said that the CIA is a very few good men trying to survive in an ocean of Al-Sharpton-Voting leftards.

[SunkenCiv]

The CIA inspector general's office -- the spy agency's internal watchdog -- has acknowledged it "mistakenly" destroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate torture report...

Good.

[HLPhat]

Gotta give Roger Stone credit when it's due:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Roger+Stone+Bush+Crime+Family

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ARoger%20Stone

I have not bought/read his books - but there seems to be a theme that is consistent with what Ike was trying to warn folks about:

[Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech Origins and Significance]

US National Archives

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y

 

"AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE"

[Vendome]

So? /s

[Vendome]

It was on an Etch-a-Sketch...

[Stayfree]

OOPS!

[bgill]

Buy stock in shredders.