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Torture Tapes Destroyed

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 3 March 2009

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New Bush Crimes Revealed: 92 Torture Tapes Destroyed

Yesterday, it was revealed that under Bush the CIA destroyed 92 tapes of illegal interrogation tactics — in other words, tapes showing the Bush administration’s record of torture. The CIA destroyed the tapes in response to, and in direct violation of, a Congressional investigation.

Destroying tapes is not small potatoes. For many months, former President Richard Nixon refused to turn over tapes that Congress believed showed criminal wrongdoing. When the Supreme Court finally forced Nixon to reveal the tapes, they included the "smoking gun" tape that showed Nixon’s role in illegal break-ins, espionage and wiretapping. The Bush administration simply destroyed its evidence, knowing it could meet a similar fate. We can’t let him get away with this.

A special Senate investigative committee is what led to Nixon’s undoing, and there’s already evidence that a similar truth commission could be in the works for Bush. The New York Times yesterday featured a widely-read forum entitled, "A Truth Commission for the Bush Era?" The article goes on to report the poll that 62 percent of Americans favor criminal investigation of Bush. The mass media’s growing coverage of this story is proof of the nationwide clamor for accountability and justice.


The New York Times ran this photo above the words: "A USA Today/Gallup poll in February found that 62 percent of Americans favor a criminal investigation or an independent panel to look into the use of torture, illegal wiretapping, and other alleged abuses of power by the Bush administration."