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McConnell: No Comment on CIA Torture Tapes Destruction

What about Hayden's boss, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell? McConnell's been DNI since February. When did he learn about the CIA destroying videotaped interrogations of al-Qaeda detainees? How many tapes did the CIA tell him it destroyed? Does he believe what he's been told? What action, if any, will he now take?

Sigh. That's for McConnell to know and you not to find out. "We're not commenting on that at all," says DNI spokeswoman Vanee Vines.


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Vanee Vines? Is that some sort of joke?

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waterboard the bitch until he spills...

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McConnell, Mukasey, Rockefeller, Hayden, congressional Democrats or Republicans, the heads of the Pentagon, CIA, Secret Service, FBI, all are just participants in one coverup after another.

I cast a vote of "no confidence".

You don't have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

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How do reporters let these people get away with this shit? NO COMMENT is not the end of the conversation! Put the freakin' irons to them and print their refusal to respond!

Like this:

"Miss Vines, your department is funded by the American people. Why do you feel you don't have any obligation to explain your department's actions to the public?

"Why should the public continue to employ you if you and your superiors feel no accountability to them?"

anyway...

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I found an entertaining game -insert the term "(ass-covering)" after every time the phrase "national security" is used in a statement or news release by Bush admin people.

-vis; "...refusing to testify siting national security (ass-covering) reasons."

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