Reyes: ‘We still have a lot of questions.’
Reyes: ‘We still have a lot of questions.’
Following a closed-door hearing with CIA Director Michael Hayden, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) said there’s still “a lot of questions” that need answering:
We just had a three-hour session with Director Hayden. Obviously, there’s several things that we can say at this point. First and foremost, we still have a lot of questions. This is just the beginning of our bipartisan investigation into the issue of the videotapes, who gave the instructions to videotape, how long they were in the possession of the agency and also, ultimately, who decided to destroy them.
We’re going to follow this through and find out where the facts lead us, obviously. But suffice it to say that there is a tremendous amount of frustration because, notwithstanding what General Hayden put out last week, we feel, on a bipartisan level, that our committee was not informed, has not been kept informed and we are very frustrated about that issue.
Reyes said he “absolutely” plans to call Porter Goss and George Tenet to testify. Ranking member Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) added, “I think the list is going to be relatively long.”
UPDATE: Hayden told the AP that he knew that the videotapes had been destroyed before taking over as head of the CIA.
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Democrats are ugly.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:44 pmoh please. these gutless, compromised collaborators are wasting my time. it’s all for show.
besides, do you honestly think the man who four years into this glorious war and who still doesn’t know the differences among the actors involved has a friggin clue — or the ability — to investigate these crimes.
and i aint referring to hoekstra.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:45 pmDemocrats are ugly.
Comment by JD Murphy — December 12, 2007 @ 12:44 pm
They must look that way when they come after your treasonous leaders, JD, but you are a craven, chickenhawk coward, so your opinion isn’t worth the crap it came out in.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:49 pmThey still don’t get it do they? When you sacrifice everything, from your moral values and fair play to the very the rule of law, on the alter of the fear, those with power will abuse their power and there will be no accountability.
“Those who don’t learn from History are doomed to repeat it”. We are not the first ones to slide down this slope of self-destructive stupidity and we will not be the last.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:49 pmComment by Lefty Patriot — December 12, 2007 @ 12:49 pm
I take that back.
Democrats are ugliier.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:50 pmMuKasey..”I think the Justice Department is capable of doing whatever it appears needs to be done,” Mukasey said. “The question of a special prosecutor is the most hypothetical of hypotheticals, and that isn’t going to be faced until it happens. And if it has to be, it will be.”
Mukasey may have a conflict of interest problem already, and may have to call upon a Special Prosecutor.
Jose Padilla’s lawyers argued before the Florida Federal Court that Abu Zubaydah was tortured into saying Padilla was an al Qaeda associate. The DOJ dismissed Padilla’s allegations as “meritless,†asserting Padilla’s legal team could not prove that Abu Zubaydah had been tortured. Well, it’s clear now that they certainly COULD have, if the tapes of the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah had been made available!
Now here is where Mukasey’s role comes into question. U.S. District Judge Mukasey, now attorney general, was the one who signed the warrant used by the FBI to arrest Padilla in May 2002. Court records show the warrant relied in part on information obtained from Abu Zubaydah’s interrogation. So we have a problem Houston.
The Attorney General can only issue a warrant based upon legally obtained evidence, and confessions under torture are certainly not “legally obtainedâ€. So either Mukasey was misrepresented the evidence, and would be liable to be potentially a party in those who were presented with “perjured evidenceâ€; or he knew that torture was used in obtaining the confession and ignored it.
In either case he is unsuitable to run an investigation, as it will, inevitably, involved himself. Thus a Special Prosecutor is necessary.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:51 pmDemocrats are ugly? You haven’t ever taken a close look at Rove or Delay?
December 12th, 2007 at 1:00 pmBush is desperately to establish a “plausible deniability factor” in this obvious torture but it isn’t likely to fly.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:46 pmI swear, Frank – where DO you get this stuff? – I have tears rolling down my cheeks, so hard is the laughter you bring me. You are indeed a Clown amongst clowns.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:46 pmAs far as dropping anything, the Independent voters are asking for an investigation as well which nixes Frank M’s little plan totally.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:46 pmBush does torture. Bush did know.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:47 pmIf Righties had always run the world, we’d still be working on the abacus, instead of getting to laugh at people like Frank through the wonder of the “internets tubes”…
hoooooooooooooo-wee!
December 12th, 2007 at 1:48 pmThose who would trade their freedoms for the ‘illusion’ of safety deserve neither.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:48 pmdamn those internets, says chumpo. imagine what he’d be getting away with if we didn’t have those damn internets.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:48 pmMr JJ-
Excellent point. Bring on the Special Prosecutor.
“Why don’t you drop this already. ”
Frank M
Frankie your fear and desparation are palpable. Your boy king and that dick Cheney aren’t going to weasel out of this one. As the “real” truth seeps out there will be nothing you fascists can do about it. Poor Georgie doesn’t have his whole gang to protect him anymore and more people on the inside are scrambling to cover their collective asses from the maelstrom that’s coming. Once a Special Prosecutor is brought in your sad game will find itself in check mate.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:06 pm“we still have a lot of questions”… WELL, WATERBOARD HAYDEN WHILE HE THINKS IT IS LEGAL! VIDEOTAPE THE PROCESS AND USE IT AS EVIDENCE. THE SAME WAY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS USING THAT KIND OF “CONFESION” AS EVIDENCE.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:07 pmAh, our glorious leaders emerge from behind closed doors to tell us that they still have questions. So, what did you ask him already? That’s a secret. Well then, what do you still hope to find out? Can’t tell you that either. If you’re not going to give us any information, then s.t.f.u.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:07 pmWhy don’t you drop this already. There will be no consequences, because the leading dems have approved the destruction of the tapes.
Comment by Frank M
If there are going to be no consequences then why do you care? Ask your overlords at the whitehouse to regurgitate a response to that chickenhawktoiletroll
December 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pmI AGREE, BRING A SPECIAL PROCECUTOR! HAGE 09!
December 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pmFollowing a closed-door hearing with CIA Director Michael Hayden, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) said there’s still “a lot of questions†that need answering:
****Please folks this guy, Reyes is one of the most corrupt Dems in congress.His relatives are all making anice chunk of change off of contracts his committe approves.We must vote these jokers out & bring in progressives Dems.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pmJd’s mom is uglier than any democrat ever. She’s uglier than Sen. Byrd’s scrotum.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:10 pmBehind doors means “Guilty”. Behind doors means “more lies”. A crime os these proportions should be investigated transparently, in public’s view and under oath! BUSH & CHENNEY, HAGE 09! In any other country people would be surrounding congress and demanding accountability! The USA is not a serious country anymore… It has lost it international credibility! No need for terrorists, Bush and Chenney have done a much better job!
December 12th, 2007 at 2:13 pmI’m not sure which party has the ugliest people in it, but I do know the Republicans are dumb. They are so dumb, that all you have to do is be against something that helps ordinary people and you can be in charge of their party. They are probably the dumbest people on the planet. I know my brothers in law are Republicans. They wave the flag, but are afraid to join the military. Take, take, take, talk, talk, talk, but when it comes to serving, they say, “No thanks, I gave at the office”.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:17 pm