Just an interesting side note...
I just finished reading Barry Eisler's novel, "Inside Out". Eisler spent 3 years in a covert position with the CIA's Directorate of Operations. The book is about a rogue CIA operative who steals the 92 torture tapes and uses them to blackmail the US Govt. In the Author's Note at the back of the book, Eisler states:
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During the year in which I wrote this book, various people privy to its plot were concerned the CIA interrogation tapes would surface and overtake the story. I told them not to worry: those tapes would never see the light of day. They haven't. And they never will." I guess he knows what he's talking about.
Also, I'm probably the first, or only, person to post on DU that I thought the CIA guys were making snuff films. Just a hunch, actually. Well lookee here...from the novel:
"'Let's just say that, by the end, they wished they were just being waterboarded.'
Ben looked at him, trying to imagine what you would have to do to a man to make him long to be waterboarded, instead. He couldn't come up with anything. He said, 'And the CIA videotaped it.'
'You got it. There's no genius like a CIA genius. Fundamentally, they created a whole line of government snuff films.'
Ben imagined a bunch of guys watching God knows what through a viewfinder, recording it, watching it again later on a screen in a dark room. Rewinding it. Pausing. He thought of what Hort had said, about torture is always about something else. He felt sick."
My money would be on Rumsfeld and Cheney. Yeah, I know. It's fiction.
edit> typos. Always typos.
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