CIA’s destruction of Torture Tapes the ‘ultimate cover up’.

So said George Washington University Law School professor Stephen Saltzburg during the House Judiciary committee’s hearing on the tapes Thursday. Professor Saltzburg is considered an ‘expert witness’ according to the RawStory writeup. A money quote or two from Professor Saltburg’s testimony:

“The rationale for destroying the tapes to protect the identity of the interrogators is almost as embarrassing as the destruction itself,” said Saltzburg, who is also general counsel for the National Institute of Military Justice. He said that the tapes could easily have been modified to obscure the faces of those involved, and that regardless, the CIA keeps a written record of which officers interrogated detainees.

“And so the explanation for destruction fails the straight-face test,” he said. “The only plausible explanation, I believe, is that the CIA wanted to assure that those tapes would never be seen by any judicial tribunal — not even a military commission — and they would never be seen by a committee of Congress.”

Continued Saltzburg, “With [the CIA tapes] gone, we have the ultimate cover-up. The indisputable evidence no longer exists, and memories will undoubtedly differ about what happened.”

Its a good read, check it out..the article also includes two videos from the hearing. A strong stomach is required for viewing these tapes in my opinion because who in their right freaking mind is buying this bullshit being shoveled by BushCo and the CIA? Saltzburg lays it out on the table my dear reader, saying out loud what most of the progressive blogosphere is saying about this bullshit. He also rips Congress a new one for being a rubber stamp for BushCo and the CIA.

Amen to that Professor Saltzburg.