



In March 2005, then-CIA director Porter Goss told the Senate "there are no techniques...that are being employed that are in any way against the law or would ...be considered torture." When Senator John McCain asked him about waterboarding, Goss would say only that is was "an area of what I will call professional interrogation techniques."



We now know that the CIA destroyed videotaped evidence of the torture of terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah, despite the fact there were ongoing federal court cases where the tapes might have been relevant as evidence and the 9/11 Commission had requested such evidence. The Congress must aggressively investigate this issue to discover whether or not criminal activity was being covered up and justice obstructed.



An Iran-Contra-style select committee must be formed with members of the House and Senate to hold serious hearings and begin a thorough investigation. This inquiry cannot be left to the Intelligence Committees because their members -- security hawks all -- have been severely compromised by their past condoning of torture in CIA interrogations. Only an entirely new committee, which Congress has the power to form in an instant, can begin to find out for the American people what was happening behind closed doors and whether or not heads should roll at Langley for obstruction of justice.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/its-time... In March 2005, then-CIA director Porter Goss told the Senate "there are no techniques...that are being employed that are in any way against the law or would ...be considered torture." When Senator John McCain asked him about waterboarding, Goss would say only that is was "an area of what I will call professional interrogation techniques."We now know that the CIA destroyed videotaped evidence of the torture of terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah, despite the fact there were ongoing federal court cases where the tapes might have been relevant as evidence and the 9/11 Commission had requested such evidence. The Congress must aggressively investigate this issue to discover whether or not criminal activity was being covered up and justice obstructed.An Iran-Contra-style select committee must be formed with members of the House and Senate to hold serious hearings and begin a thorough investigation. This inquiry cannot be left to the Intelligence Committees because their members -- security hawks all -- have been severely compromised by their past condoning of torture in CIA interrogations. Only an entirely new committee, which Congress has the power to form in an instant, can begin to find out for the American people what was happening behind closed doors and whether or not heads should roll at Langley for obstruction of justice.