Scott Horton on the newly revealed CIA torture tapes (my emphasis throughout):
So the CIA apparently failed to destroy all the [torture] tapes, and now it must confront the fact that, even though the tapes were found, it continued to falsely tell a federal court that such tapes did not exist. We will learn soon whether special prosecutor John Durham takes his job seriously, or whether he will follow in the path of his former boss Nora Dannehy and sacrifice his reputation for the interests of his party.The tapes were discovered by the CIA in 2007; their existence was revealed just recently, three years later, to the AP by:
several current and former U.S. officials [who] spoke on the condition of anonymity because the recordings remain a closely guarded secret.In between those two events, the CIA lied twice to a federal judge. Oops. Draw your own conclusions, and stay tuned.
GP
