And now there’s a paper trail in the saga of the CIA’s destroyed interrogation videotapes. A former senior intelligence official tells The New York Times‘s Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane that lawyers within the agency’s clandestine wing advised Jose Rodriguez Jr. in 2005 that junking the tapes was legal. For the investigations opening into Rodriguez’s actions by the House and Senate intelligence committee, that written advice will be key — if it hasn’t already been shredded.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179208