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baldeagle · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject:

I liked Charles Krauthammer's explanation on Brit Hume's FNC show.
"It wasn't for a cover-up, and it wasn't to protect the identities of the CIA guys. It was just ugly and not something you want being shown all over the TV networks."

Something like, You don't want to see the sausage being made.
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Leeman · PO3 Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 265 Location: Connecticut

I hope there is a limit on how many times one person can win the award.

because fat boy Teddy ..would have an advantage over the opposition.
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ocsparky101 · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:25 pm Post subject:

Bottom line is that the CIA would not have done this if it had not been standard practice in the past. The 911 Commission laid the most blame at the feet of Congress. No one mentions this fact but if you look at the laws that creates these oversite committees you will see that 911 would never have happened had Congress above everyone else been doing their jobs 911 would never have happened. Still to this date Congress refuses to do their jobs.

dcornutt · PO3 Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 267 Location: Brooklyn, NY

yes...Ted is one to speak about guilt because you simply do not know exactly what happened that night.

DLI78 · PO3 Joined: 10 Nov 2004 Posts: 273

C'mon, now. You can't dis the Commander, USS Oldsmobile like that. After all, half of his crew survived the sinking. Rolling Eyes

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BuffaloJack · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject:

The tapes were probably destroyed because someone was cleaning his office. People packrat all kinds of stuff and eventually someone says, it's four years old and we'll never use it again and we need the space. Sometimes good stuff goes out with the old.
Bottom line... I doubt if any forethought was given, or malace or skullduggery was present. I think they were just thrown out or destroyed because they had no value.
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