What part of 'compartmentalization of sources and methods' do you not understand?
As I think about the destruction of tapes of CIA interrogations, the thing that strikes me is that this seems to be the kind of thing you absolutely don't want to fall into enemy hands. So I think it stands to reason that there are very few 'need to know' folks outside of those whose job it is to make sense of the intelligence provided by any recordings of interrogations.
As a CIA officer, I could not imagine that I'd have much confidence that in today's political climate, that congressional oversight in matters regarding interrogration is much more than a witch hunt. It's all anybody seems to care about. We've weasel-worded waterboarding into the torture category and all of the -gate hunters are trying to find evidence of who boarded whom and when with no regard to the aims or the standard hiding practices of sources and methods expected of the CIA.
I predict that it won't be long until the Democrat candidates promise to use the full force of their office to expose and punish any and everybody in the Agency who ever used or approved the use of some overbroad interpretation of the word 'torture'. It will be called cleaning house. It will in fact be a purge. It will come at the expense of the faith of CIA career people that their own sources and methods will not be exploited for poltical gain.
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