Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Walter Scott was right
When he wrote of the tangled web we weave. The White House involvement in the CIA tape destruction is much more than they have admitted to but no one has yet shown just which way they pushed on this.
UPDATE: The Times must have been right on target, judging by the unprecedented response from the White House mafia. The Times has offered to correct the sub headline so vociferously objected to and provided this statement.
At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials.I'll bet that Addington was all for the destruction of the tapes, it's what a good consigliere would advocate.
The accounts indicate that the involvement of White House officials in the discussions before the destruction of the tapes in November 2005 was more extensive than Bush administration officials have acknowledged.
Those who took part, the officials said, included Alberto R. Gonzales, who served as White House counsel until early 2005; David S. Addington, who was the counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney and is now his chief of staff; John B. Bellinger III, who until January 2005 was the senior lawyer at the National Security Council; and Harriet E. Miers, who succeeded Mr. Gonzales as White House counsel.
UPDATE: The Times must have been right on target, judging by the unprecedented response from the White House mafia. The Times has offered to correct the sub headline so vociferously objected to and provided this statement.
Catherine Mathis, senior vice president of corporate communications for the newspaper, stated that the sub-headline has been changed, adding that a correction would be printed. However, Mathis also pointed out that the White House did not challenge the contents of the article.The rule of thumb for the Bushoviks is simple, the larger the distraction, the more accurate the story.
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