Are We Really More Moral Than Other Countries?

Not when we destroy evidence of our behavior. We can’t go to the video tape…it’s gone.

Current and former intelligence officials say the videotapes showed severe interrogation techniques used on two Qaeda operatives, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who were among the first three terror suspects to be detained and interrogated by the C.I.A. in secret prisons after the Sept. 11 attacks.

And destruction of these tapes harms our ability to properly prosecute detainees.

Officials acknowledged on Friday that the destruction of evidence like videotaped interrogations could raise questions about whether the Central Intelligence Agency was seeking to hide evidence of coercion. A review of records in military tribunals indicates that five lower-level detainees at Guantánamo were initially charged with offenses based on information that was provided by or related to Mr. Zubaydah. Lawyers for these detainees could argue that they needed the tapes to determine what, if anything, Mr. Zubaydah had said about them.

Luckily, we can all be relieved because, as you may recall, Bush told Katie Couric that we don’t torture.

“…we’re doing smart things to get information to protect the American people,” the President said. “I’ve said to the people that we don’t torture, and we don’t.”

Therefore, it is true.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.