CIA ‘Mistakenly’ Destroys Torture Report

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The CIA inspector general’s office — the spy agency’s internal watchdog — has acknowledged it “mistakenly” destroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate torture report at the same time lawyers for the Justice Department were assuring a federal judge that copies of the document were being preserved, Yahoo News has learned.

Although other copies of the report exist, the erasure of the controversial document by the CIA office charged with policing agency conduct has alarmed the U.S. senator who oversaw the torture investigation and reignited a behind-the-scenes battle over whether the full unabridged report should ever be released, according to multiple intelligence community sources familiar with the incident.

The deletion of the document has been portrayed by agency officials to Senate investigators as an “inadvertent” foul-up by the inspector general. In what one intelligence community source described as a series of errors straight “out of the Keystone Cops,” CIA inspector general officials deleted an uploaded computer file with the report and then accidentally destroyed a disk that also contained the document, filled with thousands of secret files about the CIA’s use of “enhanced” interrogation methods.

“It’s breathtaking that this could have happened, especially in the inspector general’s office — they’re the ones that are supposed to be providing accountability within the agency itself,” said Douglas Cox, a City University of New York School of Law professor who specializes in tracking the preservation of federal records. “It makes you wonder what was going on over there?”

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-report-on-cia-torture-1429636113023030.html

Oopsie!

[ViseGrip]

1. Just as they distroyed Ohio evidence in 2004 election theft.

They have destroyed many torture tapes, against government orders.

They act like others we know...don't they?

[malaise]

46. Everytime that is mentioned I think of

Mike Connell
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/republican_it_specialist_dies_in_plane
<snip>
A top Republican internet strategist who was set to testify in a case alleging election tampering in 2004 in Ohio has died in a plane crash. Michael Connell was the chief IT consultant to Karl Rove and created websites for the Bush and McCain electoral campaigns. Michael Connell was deposed one day before the election this year by attorneys Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis about his actions during the 2004 vote count in Ohio and his access to Karl Rove’s email files and how they went missing.

[dchill]

2. Oopsie, indeed.

Good thing there are multiple copies of the Constitution!

[bemildred]

3. "The dog ate my homework." nt

[malthaussen]

12. I wonder what one says...

... when the dog does eat his homework.

-- Mal

[surrealAmerican]

32. ... "and my report card" ...

... "and my teacher is mysteriously missing."

[tk2kewl]

4. Does Pagliano work for the CIA now?

[AgerolanAmerican]

51. similar response crossed my mind

I think in this day and age that it's only prudent to view missing, withheld, or destroyed documents as prima facie evidence that a crime has been committed - and that those in charge of maintaining the documents are the culprits.

[Angel Martin]

55. all the Clinton supporters

who are "outraged" by this are completely dead to irony.

[The Second Stone]

5. The public paid for the report, it is a report on criminal activity of criminals

who are themselves charged with preserving one of the few copies of crime. Huh. Perhaps it should be released into the public domain.

[Rex]

6. We are a nation of rogue agencies.

So who is in control again? Sure always seems like the CIA and MIC.

[bobthedrummer]

7. Prisoner Abuse: Patterns From The Past (The National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 122)

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/index.htm

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. my my my.......lookee at what you found..

and such a lovely keppable site..

many thanks, bob......

[bobthedrummer]

47. I've posted from the National Security Archive for at least a dozen years my lady.

[bobthedrummer]

48. Most US torture is of the "no-touch" school as used/developed by members of the APA

This goes wayback to the Agency's MK ULTRA/MK SEARCH behavioral science "projects" era.

In Contravention of Conventional Wisdom (Cheryl Welsh 2008)
http://mindjustice.org/wisdom.htm

[dixiegrrrrl]

49. looks like I gotta put you on DU first read group.......

will keep my eyes out.

[libodem]

8. Such Bullshit

[jalan48]

9. So are American's stupid enough to believe this?

This is our tax dollars at work.

[elljay]

24. Doesn't matter

This story is not intended to convince Americans. It is the "justification" for our own government to not punish a single person for this act.

[onethatcares]

44. how many Americans

do you think will actually know about this? Jeez, the voice is on tonite along with dancing with scars. That's the important stuff.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

50. I doubt it, but who's going to do anything about it?

[OnyxCollie]

10. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

This is satire, right?

[procon]

11. And if you believe that one, have I got a lovely bridge to sell you.

These people aren't stupid, but they sure as hell think everyone else is. The good old days when the mystique of CIA meant they could literally get away with murder, is long gone... I joke. They are still getting away with murder because that torture report will likely never be released.

[kadaholo]

13. RIGHT...!!!!

[cyberswede]

14. I bet they "hate" it when that happens

[JDPriestly]

15. This has happened too many times.

Remember the lost computer files during the Bush administration?

There should be consequences for this. Those records belong to the American people, not to those in charge of the administrations or the CIA or any other agency.

How handy!

I've seen this before and it is inexcusable.

[dixiegrrrrl]

31. and yet....zero Congressional action about what the CIA does.....

or what the Pentagon does.

Why, one would almost think the military Industrial Complex was actually in charge of the country, like Eisenhower warned about way back in 1953.

[JDPriestly]

42. Feel the Bern! He is the only one with the integrity, the courage,

the grit and the knowledge to clean up our government.

If we eliminated the corruption, we could eliminate a lot of our national debt.

[Betty Karlson]

54. Indeed: from here on, every vote and every campaign must be about stopping the status quo.

No more compromise, no more lesser of two evils.

[Rex]

52. Congress rolled over and is now a lapdog for the CIA.

They only have the spine to go after NCO or lower folks, otherwise Congress knows who it works for.

[felix_numinous]

16. No oversight

Of course no one will suffer one bit from this action, a sternly written letter, slap on the wrist should do it. And if there becomes a stink then maybe they will scapegoat some lackey to fall on his sword for them.

It is beyond stupid to think in this day and age, and all of that trillion dollar hi tech to believe for one second that this vital data had not been backed up. Lost like the lost trillions, yeah we get it.

[Octafish]

17. Reminds me of CIA man E Howard Hunt planting false cables in WH safe to implicate JFK in Diem murder

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2880126&mesg_id=2880653

...and the time the CIA man on the HSCA investigating the assassinations of JFK and MLK broke into the investigators' safe to see what was in there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2446828

Just tampering with the truth and history and government and democracy and such.

[dixiegrrrrl]

38. Nixon's accidnetla erasure of those 18 minutes of tape seem like nothing, now.

gonna keep an eye on The Intercept.....Snowden is still coming up with more smoking guns.

[Octafish]

45. Great news! Snowden, Scahill and The Intercept ROCK!

There's zip zero on the tee vee or GOOGLE News feed.

I just searched the front page of CBS News online and nothing at all under "Torture" or "CIA."

Huh. One might think this was a big story.

[AtheistCrusader]

18. Slipped, tripped, fell down the stairs and accidentally shoved the report in the paper shredder.

[Gman]

19. No accountability. No repercussions.

[rateyes]

20. Who guards the guards?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

21. And America yawns and goes back to worrying themselves about the genitals of the...

...person in the next stall over.

God bless America!

[Ford_Prefect]

22. No backup copy exists at CIA?? Not in any form on any medium?

Not in any office anywhere, or substation, or back bedroom of the senior second secretary?

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!

I have some land in Florida you really, really, really want to buy.

[suffragette]

23. Reminds me of another 'inadvertent' stretch

[MerryBlooms]

25. Rec & Kick. Wow, unbelievable.

[allan01]

26. rrrrrrrrright

[KeepItReal]

27. Go to Recycle Bin -> find report - > Right click - > Restore

If it ain't there, check the PC's network backup.

If it ain't there, somebody needs to be arrested, because this shit ain't an accident.

[Hiraeth]

37. ^^^ So. Much. This. ^^^

[AlbertCat]

29. “It makes you wonder what was going on over there?”

Uh... no it doesn't

We know exactly what's going on.

[Paper Roses]

30. BS n/t

[Kittycat]

33. CIA destroys Report, SOS operates Rogue Server

Deleted emails. Her IT person is the zero trace Boy Scout of email tracking. "Leave no trace".

Our government is not accountable to anyone on anything. What is the point of having laws?

[FighttheFuture]

34. Well, I hope that Jr. Clerical Clerk that messed up is appropriately admonished!!

We can't keep having these low-level "Lynndie England's" causing problems for our fearless leaders!

[Enthusiast]

40. ...

[RufusTFirefly]

35. You mean, like, with a cloth? n/t

[MariaThinks]

36. a copy must be in hillary's missing emails

sarcasm off.

[Angel Martin]

56. this CIA insult to our intelligence is outrageous !

Hillary Clinton needs to take the lead and call out the CIA on their sloppy handling of electronic records, failure to properly protect important electronic documents, failure to comply with legal standards of electronic record keeping, mishandling of classified information, failure to provide Congress with legally required information, illegal destruction of classified documents...

[Enthusiast]

39. If you believe this you deserve every abuse this government and society hurls at you.

You see, this government is not to be trusted. At all! In case you didn't know the CIA is part of the government.

[pmorlan1]

41. The Full Report

should be released to the public.

[JDPriestly]

43. I doubt that charges could be brought, but this appears to be

obstruction of justice. Contempt of court for someone maybe?

And I'll bet that there are still copies somewhere.

[NBachers]

53. They'll be chuckling about this one for a long time!

[marble falls]

57. It wasn't destroyed. It was merely rendered to a third nation black site.

[colsohlibgal]

58. Just Like With Dubya

I seem to recall that a ton of emails, letters, files, etc. of the Bush/Cheney gang somehow got erased, they said it was an "accident". Right.

And now this.

Just another example of American Exceptionalism I guess.

When will a critical mass figure out we are being stolen from and played big time?....by "we" I mean the majority of us not filthy rich or super connected.

[Octafish]

59. Just like that time Oswald went to Mexico City.

"The CIA advised that on October 1, 1963, an extremely sensitive source had reported that an individual identified himself as Lee Oswald, who contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City inquiring as to any messages. Special Agents of this Bureau, who have conversed with Oswald in Dallas, Texas, have observed photographs of the individual referred to above, and have listened to a recording of his voice. These special agents are of the opinion that the above-referred-to individual was not Lee Harvey Oswald." -- FBI, Nov. 23, 1963

http://www.history-matters.com/frameup.htm

Like a broken history, the record.

[bobthedrummer]

60. Mission Accomplished! Money Trumps Peace! Long Live Big Brother! The Warren Commission!

That guy in Mexico City resembled Sandy Koufax, not LHO.

[Octafish]

61. The story shocked Mark Lane.

It confirmed that the CIA leadership knew someone was impersonating Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City, six weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy.

Then, they covered it up. Seeing how the impersonator demanded a visa from the Cuban embassy and asked to meet with the KGB head of assassinations at the Moscow embassy, ostensibly to avoid World War III.

Some might say it was a trail started to lead to World War III.