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In reply to the discussion: NYT BOMBSHELL: Significantly MORE 9/11 NEGLIGENCE Than Has Been Disclosed [View all]JHB
(37,160 posts)Not making accusations, just putting a popped-up thought into words:
By this account, by July the people in these agencies who were being hamstrung by the indifference of the Bush White House were looking for ways to get clear before the shit inevitably hit the fan.
The reason John Yoo and the other composed the Torture Memos was to establish a legal framework for "enhanced interrogation" because the people in the CIA and other agencies initially resisted because they felt that they would be hung out to dry if/when it became public ("a few bad apples" .
I recall a lot of CIA agents fired under Carter were bitter that they were made the scapegoats for carrying out the policies that had come down to them. I suspect there was some memory of that in those communities, and they wanted to avoid a repeat.