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How Destroying Evidence Of Torture Gets You Promoted In Obama’s CIA

If you helped cover up evidence of war crimes by destroying unknown numbers of tapes of torture during interrogations and had actually run the “black site” prisons into which detainees were disappeared for torture, then given the President’s past rhetoric the last thing you’d have expected the Obama administration to agree to would have been your promotion to head of the clandestine service of the nation’s premier intelligence agency, right?

Fast forward to 2013.

A C.I.A. officer directly involved in the 2005 decision to destroy interrogation videotapes and who once ran one of the agency’s secret prisons has ascended to the top position within the C.I.A.’s clandestine service, according to current and former intelligence officials.

Cont.. http://notthesingularity.com/1578/how-destroying-evidence-of-torture-gets-you-promoted-in-obamas-cia/