16 Dec 2014 3:20 pm
So when Jose Rodriguez illegally destroyed the tapes in 2005, he could see into the future?RichClem » 16 Dec 2014 2:38 pm » wrote: Because they knew they were locked in a political battle with politicians who in 20:20 hindsight were going to trash their reputations.
Now he says it was to protect the identity of the interrogators, but that's not what he told the deputy to the then executive director of the CIA.
Back then he said that "the heat from destroying is nothing compared with what it would be if the tapes ever got into public domain."
He said that "out of context they would make us look terrible; it would be ‘devastating’ to us.”
BTW, we do have the technology to blur out people's faces in videos to protect their identity.