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ABC News’ Jonathan Karl writes:
On Nov. 2, 2005, the Washington Post detailed the CIA’s secret prison program known as “black sites.” It was November 2005 that the CIA destroyed the tapes.
[Director of Central Intelligence Michael] Hayden said the tapes were destroyed because “they were no longer of intelligence value” and that they posed “a serious security risk” because if leaked, they’d reveal the identity of covert CIA agents.
That was probably a good move for Hayden, considering that nothing exists for Big Media anymore if it cannot be seen and, thereby, believed. And when there’s an agenda to be pushed, the anonymous leak of such a video would have been inevitable. But, in response to Hayden’s rationale, the old liberal stalwart Ted Kennedy observed:
“That excuse won’t wash … How is it possible that the director of the CIA has so little faith in his own agency?”
That’s some glib bidness, Teddy. Have you already forgotten George Tenet’s many failures? How about farming out the intell gathering to the loudmouthed spouse of a supposedly undercover agent? How about nutjobs like Michael Scheuer and the other shit-stirrers dropping the dime to whichever Big Media organ is ready to go with their latest [whistleblowing]?
Do the leakers know when to stop?
