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Thursday 28 July 2011

White House mute on torture tapes

The White House has remained mum as the Congress presses for answers to CIA's destruction of video tapes of two terror suspects.


The spy agency has destroyed at least two video tapes in November 2005 when human rights groups and lawyers for detainees were clamoring for information about the agency's secret detention and interrogation system.

Currently, Congressional leaders are investigating to find out who knew about the issue and whether justice was obstructed in the process.

The White House wall of silence is skeptically viewed by Democrats and some Republicans.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain has affirmed that the issue will give rise to 'skepticism and cynicism' world over, about how prisoners are treated in the US and whether torture is practiced or not.

The agency claims it has destroyed the tapes for security purposes but there are other causes for concern--as Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee expresses-- whether the CIA aims 'to cover somebody's rear end.'

The debate coincides with the opening of a trial in Germany, on Monday, where a German of Lebanese descent, Khaled el-Masri has accused the CIA of kidnapping and torturing him in a case of mistaken identity.

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