'Stunning': CIA Admits 'Mistakenly' Deleting Copy of Senate Torture Report

[kpete]

'Stunning': CIA Admits 'Mistakenly' Deleting Copy of Senate Torture Report
The CIA inspector general—the agency's internal watchdog—admits to deleting its copy of the U.S. Senate's torture report, as well as a backup

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Yahoo News described the bizarre circumstances that led to the document's erasure from the inspector general's servers:

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.

"It's breathtaking that this could have happened, especially in the inspector general's office—they’re the ones that are supposed to be providing accountability within the agency itself," said Douglas Cox, a City University of New York School of Law professor who specializes in tracking the preservation of federal records. "It makes you wonder what was going on over there?"

"It's stunning that even the CIA's own watchdog couldn't manage to hang onto its copy of the Senate's landmark report about CIA black sites. One worries that no one is minding the store," Crider commented.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/16/stunning-cia-admits-mistakenly-deleting-copy-senate-torture-report
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-report-on-cia-torture-1429636113023030.html

[Purveyor]

1. Bullshit!!!

[Bangbangdem]

14. Aww. Cmon.

Standard operating procedure. I'm glad you are so indignant. Well done. Grow the fuck up.

[Octafish]

19. You like secret government?

So it's OK for secret agents to destroy evidence of their criminality?

Bangbangdem, it's you who's got a lot of growing up to do.

[allan01]

2. riiiiiiiiiiight

[AgerolanAmerican]

3. Only a person with below room temperature IQ would believe this one

so I guess that means most of Congress and all the corporate media will swallow it hook line and stinker

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. "Mistakenly," my fat white ass.

[JEB]

5. My dog ate my homework.

[rhett o rick]

7. Yeah my dog ate my homework after I covered it with gravy. nm

[Hydra]

6. Lol

It's not like they have anything to worry about. Torture is all but legalized now.

[rhett o rick]

8. All you have to do to legalize anything is get your lawyers to write a paper explaining

how it's legal.

[Hydra]

9. That's one way to do it

And they certainly tried to John Yoo it...but the best way to legalize is either to get enough people onboard with the idea or for a larger group to no longer give a shit about it. Hence legalization of MJ right now. Unfortunately it's happening with torture and other war crimes too.

[rhett o rick]

10. About the only Constitutional right we have left is the right to carry firearms. nm

[Hydra]

12. I like what Carlin said about "Rights"

In 1942, there were a 110,000 Japanese American citizens in good standing, law-abiding people, who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That’s all they did wrong. They had no right to a lawyer, no right to a fair trial, no right to a jury of their peers, no right to due process of any kind. The only right they had, “right this way” – into the internment camps. Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took ’em away. And rights aren’t rights if someone can take ’em away. They’re privileges, that’s all we’ve ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter. [applause] You see what I was saying…

So at some point, that 2nd amendment "right" will go away. It might actually go away because people here pushed for it. I see people cheering on free speech zones here and wonder just how much stranger it gets further down the rabbit hole...

[Feeling the Bern]

11. Someone get a shovel. In 2016, it's amazing the American government can lie to us, keep

a straight face and then expect us to believe it. This isn't the 1950s anymore, people. You fuckers in the USG cried wolf too many times. We don't believe your bullshit.

[NBachers]

13. They'll be chuckling about this one for a long time!

[Solly Mack]

15. Yeah, and I accidentally run stop signs in the dead of night when no one is around.

[Amishman]

16. Of course they did, hiding or destroying incriminating documents is all the rage in our government

They have zero consequences, so they do what they want.

[Orrex]

17. Refresh my memory

Didn't they also "accidentally" delete the video footage of CIA agents torturing people?

Or am I misremembering?

[Octafish]

20. CIA destroyed the tapes as soon as the coast was clear.

(Carl) Levin's proposal for an independent investigation was voted down by the Senate on Nov. 8, 2005. The videotapes were destroyed the next day, according to the report.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/2014/12/10/levin-interrogation-cia-tapes-torture/20207577/

[Orrex]

21. Thanks. Didn't know how best to Google that.

I remember thinking at the time that my company was legally required to keep internal emails for seven years, even if that email was simply an announcement that there was still pizza left over from the office party.

But the CIA is free to destroy whatever it wants, apparently. I work for the wrong company!

[Octafish]

22. They run it like the ad agency in ''Mad Men.''

Clients foot the bill in more ways than one.

In a 1975 interview, Ex-CIA agent Philip Agee summed up his personal observations of the agency:

To the people who work for it, the CIA is known as The Company. The Big Business mentality pervades everything. Agents, for instance, are called assets. The man in charge of the United Kingdom desk is said to have the "U.K. account"…

American multinational corporations have built up colossal interests all over the world, and you can bet your ass that wherever you find U. S. business interests, you also find the CIA… The multinational corporations want a peaceful status quo in countries where they have investments, because that gives them undisturbed access to cheap raw materials, cheap labor and stable markets for their finished goods. The status quo suits bankers, because their money remains secure and multiplies. And, of course, the status quo suits the small ruling groups the CIA supports abroad, because all they want is to keep themselves on top of the socioeconomic pyramid and the majority of their people on the bottom. But do you realize what being on the bottom means in most parts of the world? Ignorance, poverty, often early death by starvation or disease…

Remember, the CIA is an instrument of the President; it only carries out policy. And, like everyone else, the President has to respond to forces in the society he's trying to lead, right? In America, the most powerful force is Big Business, and American Big Business has a vested interest in the Cold War. (6)

-- Steve Kangas

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html

Wish I could name the stockholders. That's classified.

[spanone]

18. it's called a rogue agency.

i call bullshit.