Senate majority whip pressures administration on interrogation recording

[maddezmom]

Source: McCaltchy

Senate majority whip pressures administration on interrogation recording
12/12/2007 6:53:03 PM
McClatchy-Tribune Newspapers

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin has given the Bush administration one week to disclose whether interrogations of suspected terrorists were recorded by friendly foreign intelligence services and made available to the CIA.

In three sharply worded letters delivered Wednesday to CIA Director Michael Hayden, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Durbin, D-Ill., demanded to know whether audio or video recordings of interrogations, possibly involving torture, had been made at the CIA's behest and later provided to the intelligence agency.

In Tuesday's Chicago Tribune, militant Islamic preacher Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, recalled hearing what sounded like an audiotape cassette being flipped over during his interrogations by Egyptian intelligence officials.

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Durbin's letter to Hayden asked whether the CIA had ever "reviewed" any audio or video recordings made by such friendly Arab nations as Egypt, Jordan and Morocco, where the agency is known to have "rendered" terrorist suspects for questioning, and whether such tapes "contain evidence that diplomatic assurances not to torture a detainee have been violated."



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[rockybelt]

1. Oh another sharply worded letter

BFD!

[rodeodance]

2. one week mr jr president--just one week!