Ahí tienen a un puertorriqueño que defiende el derecho a torturar y destruyó 92 videos que documentaban las 83 que Abu Zubaydah fue sometido a waterboarding. Fue Director que estaba a cargo del programa de torturas de la CIA. Jose Rodriguez, the former Puerto Rican CIA official in charge of the agency’s defunct torture program, is arguing that it was both effective and authorized, and that the Senate Intelligence Committee report that is highly critical of the program is biased and incorrect. It is, of course, hard to believe Rodriguez’s assertions, much less reconstruct the exact nature of the CIA’s interrogation program, after Rodriguez himself ordered the destruction of key videos documenting it in 2005. In a recent op-ed for the Washington Post, Rodriguez strongly condemned the Senate Intelligence Committee’s vote to declassify portions of a report critical of the CIA’s torture program, writing “[p]eople might think it is wrong for me to condemn a report I haven’t read. But since the report condemns a program I ran, I think I have justification.” Rodriguez is the same man who authorized the destruction of 92 video recordings of Abu Zubaydah being waterboarded 83 times in one month in a black prison site back in 2005. Rodriguez justified the destruction by writing that “the heat from destroying [the torture videos] is nothing compared to what it would be if the tapes ever got into the public domain.” Unsurprisingly, Rodriquez doesn’t mention destroying key evidence of the torture program in his op-ed, but his history of doing so makes it hard to read his article as anything more than another attempt to whitewash evidence of the agency’s wrongdoing. nsarchive.wordpress/2014/04/09/jose-rodriguez-destroys-key-evidence-of-cia-torture-program-then-calls-senate-report-condemning-it-flawed-biased-and-incomplete/
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 03:14:23 +0000
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