In his bid to gain attention, rake in money, and bash President Obama the CIA officer that destroyed evidence of war crimes admits it in his new book. Claiming that the videos of CIA officers torturing people put Americans in danger. Completely missing it was the act of torture itself that opened the gates to acceptance of cruel and ineffective interrogations.
Especially after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal,Rodriguez writes, if the CIA’s videos were to leak out, officers worldwide would be in danger.
“I wasn’t going to sit around another three years waiting for people to get up the courage,” to do what CIA lawyers said he had the authority to do himself, Rodriguez writes. He describes sending the order in November 2005 as “just getting rid of some ugly visuals.”
Rodriguez writes critically of Obama’s counterterrorism policies today. With no way to capture and interrogate terrorists, Rodriguez says, the CIA relies far too much on drones. Unmanned aerial attacks alienate America’s foreign partners and make it impossible to question people in the know, he says.
These points could foreshadow Republican attack lines in the presidential race because other former senior CIA officers are advising presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Getting rid of evidence of international crime is what it is called. We still have people in prisons, who knows where, being treated inhumanely for no other reason than we are the biggest bullies on the block. We have people in Guantanamo Bay that were turned in as terrorist so the neighbor in the next village could not only get a bounty but to take over their property when they were captured. We have Gay men from Iraq that were captured and turned in to be tortured because Gay's are considered subhuman, and not only in Iraq are they viewed that way.