"The Press Has Learned..."

Don’t you just love it when Bushco subverts our government to decide whether or not we need to know something they think is important?

As noted here…

Angry Democratic lawmakers called for investigations Friday into the Central Intelligence Agency's destruction in 2005 of at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two al-Qaeda operatives in the agency’s custody.

Good. It’s long past time to stop treating this cabal of crooks with kid gloves (and I took a shot at Jay Rockefeller a couple of days ago, but based on this, he seems to be “getting his back up also”; we’ll see what kind of a “follow-through” there is, though).

As the FIP story also tells us…

In a statement to employees on Thursday, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the C.I.A. director, said that the decision to destroy the tapes was made “within the C.I.A.” and that they were destroyed to protect the safety of undercover officers and because they no longer had intelligence value.

Says you (and once again, Bushco just refuses to get “advise and consent, separation of powers, congressional oversight”…you know, how our democracy is supposed to work!).

But gosh, didn’t Joe Biden vote to confirm Hayden as the CIA director here? And I seem to recall that Biden thought Hayden was "a nice guy."

Glub, glub, Joe – watch that presidential run sink into the Delaware Bay…

(By the way, this is a great Kos post on this...and Porter Goss continues to remain missing and utterly unaccountable.)

Update 12/8/07: More fool me for thinking Jay Rockefeller actually had a spine (and Prof. Marcus nailed Jane Harman yesterday over this).