CIA tells employees: Preserve records, but don't produce records

[flashl]

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

The irony is not lost on us: after destroying detainee interrogation tapes, the CIA issues an order to all employees directing them to preserve all records on the issue. We wonder why they felt a need in the Order to point out that it was "not a request to produce records." Could it be that when they got a FOIA request for the tapes from the ACLU, which was a request to produce records, the agency did not see the need to preserve the requested records?

Here's the CIA "Employee Bulletin":

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[jeff30997]

1. "Preserve records, but don't produce records"

I told the same thing to Michael Jackson the other day.

[flashl]

2. Wish I had a comeback

I was deprived of snark as a child.

[dailykoff]

3. Didn't Enron issue a similar directive?

Just before it went belly up? :evilgrin: