Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

December 11, 2007

On December 6, CIA Director Michael Hayden admitted that the agency had destroyed video recordings of the 2005 interrogations of terrorist suspects. This was done, Hayden insists, to protect the safety of undercover operatives.

Critics of the agency point out that the videotapes may have contained evidence of torture, which was clearly illegal at the time. This being the case, the destruction of those tapes would be nothing less than a criminal act itself.

Hayden insists that the tapes revealed no illegal activity, since the interrogations had been subject to a ?rigorous review? by the Agency's General Counsel. However, that official, John Rizzo, has openly defended torture as a proper interrogation method, even when forbidden by criminal statutes.

So it appears the CIA employed torture, had its in-house torture advocate certify it legal, and then destroyed the evidence. This is the kind of behavior we'd expect from a dictatorship, not a constitutional republic.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.