Why Were CIA Interrogation Tapes Destroyed?
The case of the missing 92 CIA interrogation tapes would be a good subject for a modern day Agatha Christie mystery. Someone at the CIA decided the tapes had to be destroyed — even at the risk of an obstruction of justice charge — but no one's confessing. By now John Durham, the assistant U.S. attorney investigating the tapes' destruction, must be scratching his head wondering if everyone at the CIA was complicit.
[Editor's Comment:] Why the CIA Interrogation Tapes were destroyed? -Pretty obvious, isn't it? This dumb Time Magazine piece is typical of the MSM when they're in obfuscation/fire extinguishing mode. That's when they stoop to the level of talking about an "Agatha Christie mystery"...and about the CIA being "complicit".
People in the Media are rightly seen as being cowards -asking questions when facts and statements are called for ("Did the CIA want to destroy graphic evidence of sleep-deprivation or waterboarding?") But as far as we can tell, they mostly do this to take the mickey out of the explosive facts, to make them more innocuous, sort of. -Next thing you see is a cartoon they've made that shows a dead torture victim coming a live again doing a breakdance on Obama's desk in the Oval Office...or maybe Kentucky Fried will come up with a new product that the Media will promote...let's say The Abu Ghraib Fried____(fill in the blank yourself).
To set the matter straight: the CIA actually committed horrible crimes (still commits them), deliberately deleted the tapes and is guilty as hell and: covering them up (or "explaining" them and/or "analysing" them), the Media certainly are complicit in these crimes. And as for Agatha Christie thing? -There's no mystery here. None at all.