A former CIA official intimately involved in the treatment of detainees, Jose Rodriguez, wrote a book-length defense, claiming the “hard measures” prevented further terrorist attacks. The popular Hollywood film Zero Dark Thirty received significant US government assistance and left many viewers with the impression that torture led inexorably to the death of Osama bin Laden. “After years of investigation and scrutiny, I believe my actions were vindicated and, I must tell you, that judgment felt sweet,” Rodriguez wrote in his 2012 book, co-written with a senior aide to former CIA director George Tenet. Rodriguez, however, destroyed nearly 100 videotapes detailing brutal interrogations – an act not disclosed to the Senate intelligence committee for years and one which led directly to the committee’s current inquiry, Feinstein revealed last month.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:35:15 +0000
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