Would you believe ... the dog ate my document?
On 5/16/2016 10:51 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
Well, while I do think that the CIA is capable of major screw ups, I
do not consider "losing" documents to be acts of clumsy incompetence.
The document disappearing act, is as old as paper and quill.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/16/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You don't believe that this was an accident or incompetence, do you? I'd
say
it was very competent and planned.
Miriam
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What would we expect. CIA stands for, Clumsy Incompetent Asses.
But seriously, from the day I heard the hum of the Nixon tapes, I have
tracked about two tons of missing documents, files and tapes. Of course we
can't weigh the lost email that gets accidentally sent into Outer Space.
What is surprising, and speaks to the real incompetence of our highly
qualified officials, is the number of documents, emails, files and tapes
that have been left in place. I'd at least like to think that the folks
spying on me have a little class.
And by the way, Obama has slipped just a little bit more in my opinion,
after his dismal efforts to protect our American Way of Life.
American Way of Life...and that would be?...
Carl Jarvis
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Whoops? CIA Watchdog 'Mistakenly' Destroys Its Sole Copy of Senate
Torture Report By Sarah Lazare [1] / AlterNet [2] May 16, 2016 AddThis
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AddThis Share optionsShare to Email The years-long battle to force the
Obama administration to release the nearly-7,000-page Senate
Intelligence Committee's report detailing the CIA's
post-9/11 torture program just took an absurd new turn.
According to exclusive reporting [3] from Yahoo News correspondent
Michael Isikoff, the CIA inspector general's office says it
"mistakenly" destroyed its sole copy of the mass document "at the same
time lawyers for the Justice Department were assuring a federal judge
that copies of the document were being preserved."
While the deleted report was not the only copy in existence, the
foul-up is already proving an embarrassment for the office, which is
"responsible for independent oversight of the CIA," according to [4] its
Citing information obtained by "multiple intelligence communitypublic.
sources familiar with the incident," Isikoff explains:
The incident was privately disclosed to the Senate Intelligence
Committee and the Justice Department last summer, the sources said.
But the destruction of a copy of the sensitive report has never been made
Nor was it reported to the federal judge who, at the time, wasgeneral.
overseeing a lawsuit seeking access to the still classified document
under the Freedom of Information Act, according to a review of court
files in the case.
.The deletion of the document has been portrayed by agency officials
to Senate investigators as an "inadvertent" foul-up by the inspector
In what one intelligence community source described as a series ofmaterials.
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.
This is not the first time CIA evidence has gone missing. Isikoff notes:
Ironically in light of the inspector general's actions, the
intelligence committee's investigation was triggered by the CIA's
admission in 2007 that it had destroyed another key piece of evidence
- hours of videotapes of the waterboarding of two "high value"
detainees, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
What's more, in 2014 the CIA hacked into [5] the computers used by the
Senate committee overseeing the report, but was later absolved [6] for
the breach by the inspector general's office.
Repeated queries from Yahoo News prompted Democratic Sen. Dianne
Feinstein, who oversaw the investigation, to write a letter [7] last
Friday to CIA director John Brennan requesting that he provide a copy
of the report to the CIA inspector general "immediately."
"Your prompt response will allay my concern that this was more than an
'accident,'" she continued, adding: "I believe that it is important to
remedy this situation immediately."
According to [8] the ACLU, the torture report is the "most
comprehensive account of the torture program to date." The heavily
redacted key findings and executive summary of the investigation were
released [9] to the public at the end of 2014, revealing that the CIA
repeatedly lied to the public about the effectiveness of its brutal
torture methods, which included forms of assault referred to as
"rectal feeding," as well as long-term sleep deprivation and threats
levied against the family members of those forced to undergo abuse.
Survivors of torture [10] and children who endured forced rendition
have repeatedly called [11] for the full release of the report, as
well as accountability for the atrocities brought to light. Yet the
Obama administration granted blanket immunity [12] to all Bush-era CIA
torturers and has vigorously fought against calls for transparency.
Just days ago, a court rejected an ACLU lawsuit under the Freedom of
Information Act demanding the full release of the report-a decision
the civil liberties group intends to appeal.
"The CIA inspector general's 'inadvertent' destruction of this copy of
the full torture report is extremely disturbing and should have been
reported to the court," Ashley Gorski, a staff attorney with the
ACLU's National Security Project, told AlterNet. The CIA's destruction
of the report defies Congress's intent, which is that the agency uses
the study so that the mistakes of the past are never repeated."
Yet, in remarks made last month, presumptive Republican nominee Donald
Trump declared [13] he plans to escalate the CIA torture program.
"They asked me, What do you think about waterboarding, Mr. Trump? I
said I love it. I love it, I think it's great," he said. "And I said
the only thing is, we should make it much tougher than waterboarding,
and if you don't think it works folks, you're wrong."
Sarah Lazare is a staff writer for AlterNet. A former staff writer for
Common Dreams, she coedited the book About Face: Military Resisters
Turn Against War. Follow her on Twitter at @sarahlazare [14].
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Torture Report By Sarah Lazare [1] / AlterNet [2] May 16, 2016 AddThis
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Google+More
AddThis Share optionsShare to Email
The years-long battle to force the Obama administration to release the
nearly-7,000-page Senate Intelligence Committee's report detailing the
CIA's
post-9/11 torture program just took an absurd new turn.
According to exclusive reporting [3] from Yahoo News correspondent
Michael Isikoff, the CIA inspector general's office says it
"mistakenly" destroyed its sole copy of the mass document "at the same
time lawyers for the Justice Department were assuring a federal judge
that copies of the document were being preserved."
While the deleted report was not the only copy in existence, the
foul-up is already proving an embarrassment for the office, which is
"responsible for independent oversight of the CIA," according to [4] its
Citing information obtained by "multiple intelligence communitypublic.
sources familiar with the incident," Isikoff explains:
The incident was privately disclosed to the Senate Intelligence
Committee and the Justice Department last summer, the sources said.
But the destruction of a copy of the sensitive report has never been made
Nor was it reported to the federal judge who, at the time, wasgeneral.
overseeing a lawsuit seeking access to the still classified document
under the Freedom of Information Act, according to a review of court
files in the case.
.The deletion of the document has been portrayed by agency officials
to Senate investigators as an "inadvertent" foul-up by the inspector
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.
This is not the first time CIA evidence has gone missing. Isikoff notes:
Ironically in light of the inspector general's actions, the
intelligence committee's investigation was triggered by the CIA's
admission in 2007 that it had destroyed another key piece of evidence
- hours of videotapes of the waterboarding of two "high value"
detainees, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
What's more, in 2014 the CIA hacked into [5] the computers used by the
Senate committee overseeing the report, but was later absolved [6] for
the breach by the inspector general's office.
Repeated queries from Yahoo News prompted Democratic Sen. Dianne
Feinstein, who oversaw the investigation, to write a letter [7] last
Friday to CIA director John Brennan requesting that he provide a copy
of the report to the CIA inspector general "immediately."
"Your prompt response will allay my concern that this was more than an
'accident,'" she continued, adding: "I believe that it is important to
remedy this situation immediately."
According to [8] the ACLU, the torture report is the "most
comprehensive account of the torture program to date." The heavily
redacted key findings and executive summary of the investigation were
released [9] to the public at the end of 2014, revealing that the CIA
repeatedly lied to the public about the effectiveness of its brutal
torture methods, which included forms of assault referred to as
"rectal feeding," as well as long-term sleep deprivation and threats
levied against the family members of those forced to undergo abuse.
Survivors of torture [10] and children who endured forced rendition
have repeatedly called [11] for the full release of the report, as
well as accountability for the atrocities brought to light. Yet the
Obama administration granted blanket immunity [12] to all Bush-era CIA
torturers and has vigorously fought against calls for transparency.
Just days ago, a court rejected an ACLU lawsuit under the Freedom of
Information Act demanding the full release of the report-a decision
the civil liberties group intends to appeal.
"The CIA inspector general's 'inadvertent' destruction of this copy of
the full torture report is extremely disturbing and should have been
reported to the court," Ashley Gorski, a staff attorney with the
ACLU's National Security Project, told AlterNet. The CIA's destruction
of the report defies Congress's intent, which is that the agency uses
the study so that the mistakes of the past are never repeated."
Yet, in remarks made last month, presumptive Republican nominee Donald
Trump declared [13] he plans to escalate the CIA torture program.
"They asked me, What do you think about waterboarding, Mr. Trump? I
said I love it. I love it, I think it's great," he said. "And I said
the only thing is, we should make it much tougher than waterboarding,
and if you don't think it works folks, you're wrong."
Sarah Lazare is a staff writer for AlterNet. A former staff writer for
Common Dreams, she coedited the book About Face: Military Resisters
Turn Against War. Follow her on Twitter at @sarahlazare [14].
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hild-v
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artmen
t-immunity-bush-cia-torturer
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