Late last year, Newsweek added a significant wrinkle to the CIA’s destroyed torture tapes scandal. Then-Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte had apparently “strongly advised against” destroying the tapes in a memo, “the only known documentation that a senior intel official warned that the tapes should not be destroyed.” That potentially meant trouble for Jose Rodriguez, the former CIA official who ordered the tapes destroyed.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=178539