Political Bloviation

The New York Times reports:

One former senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the matter said there had been “vigorous sentiment” among some top White House officials to destroy the tapes. The former official did not specify which White House officials took this position, but he said that some believed in 2005 that any disclosure of the tapes could have been particularly damaging after revelations a year earlier of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

h/t The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Sully says that:

This time, there could not even be a farcical attempt to blame elaborate text-book torture and abuse techniques on free-lance reservists who were easily framed. All this torture - hundreds and hundreds of hours of Gestapo-style hypothermia, stress positions, waterboarding, sleep deprivation - was meticulously approved from the very top. They knew they were risking illegality and obstruction of justice in this act of institutional vandalism. But if they didn’t destroy the tapes, they were risking direct evidence of war crimes. Not a hard call, is it? And you would have to have had blinders and ear-muffs on for the past six years to believe Bush didn’t know about it.

I agree, the White House and Chenney’s fingerprints are all over this. War crimes and obstruction of justice. The Democratic leadership really should put impeachment (starting with Chenney) back on the table immediately.

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