{"id":5227,"date":"2010-04-16T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:41:41","slug":"cia-head-okayed-05-video-distruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/16\/cia-head-okayed-05-video-distruction\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA head okayed &#8217;05 video distruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5228\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/CIA-logo.jpg\" alt=\"CIA logo\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/>A newly released document shows that, although he didn&#8217;t okay it in advance, then CIA Director Porter Goss in 2005\u00a0<a title=\"approved\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/15\/AR2010041505854.html\" target=\"_blank\">approved<\/a> of the decision to destroy dozens of videotapes of brutal interrogations of terrorism detainees.\u00a0 International Relations Professor <a title=\"Joseph Wippl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/wippl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Wippl<\/a>, a 30-year CIA operation officer, asks if the tapes were destroyed to protect CIA personnel doing the interrogations or to protect the CIA from its Abu Gharib moment?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Like the Nixon [Watergate] tapes, once done on the record, it cannot be undone without serious repercussions.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Joseph Wippl, 617-353-8992, <a href=\"mailto:jwippl@bu.edu\">jwippl@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly released document shows that, although he didn&#8217;t okay it in advance, then CIA Director Porter Goss in 2005\u00a0approved of the decision to destroy dozens of videotapes of brutal interrogations of terrorism detainees.\u00a0 International Relations Professor Joseph Wippl, a 30-year CIA operation officer, asks if the tapes were destroyed to protect CIA personnel doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2695,962,2697,2696],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7781,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions\/7781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}