Hayden in close-door session today.

CIA boss Michael Hayden is in a closed door session with the House Intel committee. Since its a private session, I doubt we will get much info out of the participants. He is trying to explain the CIA’s destruction of the ‘torture tapes’ . From The Progress Report:

After testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday, Hayden told reporters he had laid out “the narrative, the history of why the tapes were destroyed.” But since the interrogations were first videotaped under George Tenet in 2002, and later destroyed under Porter Goss in 2005, Hayden was either unable or unwilling to provide full answers. “Other people in the agency know about this far better than I,” said Hayden. Committee Chairman John Rockefeller (D-WV) called the 90-minute session “a useful and not yet complete hearing.” Still remaining unanswered is “who authorized destruction of the tapes, and why Congress wasn’t told about it.”

All I know is..someone needs to be held responsible for this snafu. Kudo’s to the NYT for breaking the story. These fascists should not be given a free pass on this issue. Remember..Pelosi, Rockefeller and other Democratic leaders who feign disgust knew about the existence of these tapes and did or said nothing until the story broke about their destruction.

crossposted at The Revolt Blog