Congress wants answers on CIA tapes

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Source: AP

Congress wants answers on CIA tapes

By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago

Congress summoned CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden to Capitol Hill to explain his agency's destruction of interrogation videotapes, as multiple investigations began into who knew about and approved the decision.

Hayden is to testify in a closed session Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and on Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee.

Among the questions he'll face is whether Congress was notified about the tapes' destruction. The chairman of the House panel, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, said Hayden's assertion last week that lawmakers were informed "does not appear to be true."

Hayden told CIA employees on Thursday that the CIA had taped the interrogations of two terrorist suspects in 2002. He said Congress was notified in 2003 both of the tapes' existence and the CIA's intent to destroy them.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_on_go_co/cia_videotapes_121

[samplegirl]

1. what they want..............

and what they get are two different things. They need to demand
and keep pounding at it. Impeachment should be the only alternative.

[troubleinwinter]

2. Closed session= "It's all on the up & up, no problems, no worries, all is perfectly fine."

I don't want a closed session. I want to hear the testimony myself.

[greyl]

3. Hopefully, they'll lift the secrecy after the session.

Not counting on it, but it's possible.

[Supersedeas]

4. silly Congress....the separation of powers is so quaint