Reuters
By: Tabassum Zakaria
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WASHINGTON – Jose Rodriguez said it took a “few hours” to destroy 92 videotapes showing his CIA colleagues using harsh interrogation techniques – including waterboarding – on al Qaeda leaders such as September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed…
The controversy over the tactics continues on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the bin Laden killing.
The Obama administration has made clear that it did not condone the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which were used under the George W. Bush administration.
In a speech on Monday, John Brennan, counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama and a former CIA official, recalled that Obama in his first days in office “banned the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which are not needed to keep our country safe.”
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, both Democrats…
The Senate intelligence committee will soon complete its review of the CIA’s former interrogation program. The final report is expected to exceed 5,000 pages and will detail what was or wasn’t gained from the program, they said …
But Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent who was involved in high-profile terrorism investigations, said in an interview that “not one single piece of intelligence evidence came from EITs or torture that led to Osama bin Laden.”
He questioned whether Rodriguez acted properly in destroying the tapes which were evidence of how the interrogations were conducted. “If I did that in the FBI, I would be in jail today,” Soufan said…
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