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Mark 750

(79 posts)
Mon May 16, 2016, 05:40 PM May 2016

Senate report on CIA torture is one step closer to disappearing

Source: Yahoo News

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.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-report-on-cia-torture-1429636113023030.html



Here lies evil and the unspeakable!
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Senate report on CIA torture is one step closer to disappearing (Original Post) Mark 750 May 2016 OP
"Oh no we shredded it... And now the shreddings have spontaneously combusted... oh no..." ck4829 May 2016 #1
Seriously passiveporcupine May 2016 #11
unbelieveable grasswire May 2016 #2
The Memory Hole Octafish May 2016 #3
It's important that we don't get too sanctimonious Doctor_J May 2016 #4
'We TORTURED some folks.' (emphasis mine) Volaris May 2016 #5
Par for the course. The course is corruption, of course. nt valerief May 2016 #6
ONLY COPY???? Utter BS billhicks76 May 2016 #7
Yeah...if they wanted anyone to look at it, they called them into silvershadow May 2016 #13
Spinal Tap's drummer began working for us and he was holding the only copy Blandocyte May 2016 #8
Was that Stumpy Joe Peeps??? n/t tom_kelly May 2016 #10
In this day and age, there is no such thing as one copy, who's going to call them out on this AuntPatsy May 2016 #9
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OnyxCollie May 2016 #12
Let this sink in ... GeorgeGist May 2016 #14
Your report is here... silvershadow May 2016 #15

ck4829

(37,631 posts)
1. "Oh no we shredded it... And now the shreddings have spontaneously combusted... oh no..."
Mon May 16, 2016, 05:44 PM
May 2016

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
11. Seriously
Mon May 16, 2016, 08:24 PM
May 2016

Who ever only has one copy of an important reprort? And if it's so massive, how do you "mistakenly" destroy it?

Oh oh...my dog ate it.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
3. The Memory Hole
Mon May 16, 2016, 06:06 PM
May 2016


memory hole - A system of pipes, similar to pneumatic tubes, which were used to destroy documents. A document stuffed in the memory hole would be conveniently whisked away to the furnaces below - quickly & easily wiped from history.

http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-dict.html
 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
4. It's important that we don't get too sanctimonious
Mon May 16, 2016, 06:17 PM
May 2016

Said the only president to serve two entire terms while keeping the country at war.

Volaris

(11,656 posts)
5. 'We TORTURED some folks.' (emphasis mine)
Mon May 16, 2016, 07:05 PM
May 2016

Like it was just an 'oopsie'.

That it may have been a mistake (it wasn't) doesn't make it not a crime.

This Imperial Presidency bullshit has to stop. If it's not OK that Dim Son did it, it's not OK for Obama either.

 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
13. Yeah...if they wanted anyone to look at it, they called them into
Tue May 17, 2016, 02:37 AM
May 2016

the IG's personal office to look at it.

Blandocyte

(1,231 posts)
8. Spinal Tap's drummer began working for us and he was holding the only copy
Mon May 16, 2016, 07:19 PM
May 2016

when, well, "poof!"

AuntPatsy

(9,904 posts)
9. In this day and age, there is no such thing as one copy, who's going to call them out on this
Mon May 16, 2016, 07:34 PM
May 2016

obvious criminal act.?

GeorgeGist

(25,570 posts)
14. Let this sink in ...
Tue May 17, 2016, 04:45 PM
May 2016
“mistakenly” destroyed its only copy of a [font size =4]mammoth[/font size] Senate torture report
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