Hayden knew about videotapes before taking command of CIA

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

Hayden knew about videotapes before taking command of CIA
The Associated Press

CIA Director Michael Hayden knew of the terrorist interrogation videotapes now at the center of controversy more than a year ago, he told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Hayden knew "the fact of" the destroyed videotapes late in his tenure as principal deputy director of national intelligence, a post he held from April 2005 to May 2006, he said on his way to brief the House Intelligence Committee about the unfolding investigation.

"We are very happy to let the facts take us where they will," Hayden told a phalanx of TV cameras at the Capitol before stepping into an elevator to the panel's secure meeting room.

Hayden made a similar appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, but said he could not answer all the panel's questions because the tapes were created and destroyed before he arrived at the CIA, under the tenure of his predecessors George Tenet and Porter Goss.



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[marylanddem]

1. Hayden is creepy as they come

Keith Olbermann pointed out last night how creepy it is that he wears that general suit all the time. He looks like a squashed up evil version of Eisenhower...

[Javaman]

2. pardon my ignorance, is he not still in the military or...

is he out and just can't accept that fact? Which would, yes, make it indeed creepy in a norman bates sort of way.

[atreides1]

3. He's still in the USAF

He is still on active duty, but remember that Himmler wore a uniform as well while in charge of the SS and Gestapo.

[Supersedeas]

4. lots of creepy parallels

[marylanddem]

5. I think that's what creeps me out -

That the CIA is supposedly a CIVILIAN organization. And this dude by his in-your-face-bemedalled uniform is obviously first and foremost
a military man - the military industrial octopus enveloping this once-great country of ours...

[tanyev]

6. "We are very happy to let the facts take us where they will,"

Riiiiiight. Just like facts took us into Iraq?