An interesting idea about why the CIA destroyed interogation tapes...

[headscratcher4]

http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzRmMjdiODg3OWMyMzFkZTYwMmJjNWI2MGJhOTZmMzY=

Through the looking glass?

[Cicero]

Because the CIA are not complete morons and destroying the tapes is probably SOP. Also, why would they want the ACLU and Amnesty International pissing and moaning about how they didn't offer the Islamic Fundamentalist terrorist decaffeinated java.

[Undesired Walrus]

Because the CIA are not complete morons and destroying the tapes is probably SOP. Also, why would they want the ACLU and Amnesty International pissing and moaning about how they didn't offer the Islamic Fundamentalist terrorist decaffeinated java.

You're a knob.

[Max Photon]

The alleged destruction of interrogation tapes by the CIA is a red herring.

The apparent function of the destruction is to create an argument as to what they are hiding: Did the CIA use illegal torture on top Al Qaeda operatives?

Don't be an idiot.

The real function of the claimed destruction of interrogation tapes is to generate the assumptive close that Al Qaeda even exists.

It is imperative that the Al Qaeda illusion be maintained, for after all, what else will serve as the fig leaf to cover up the fact that 911 was an inside job?


The same type of assumptive close was being used around Sibel Edmonds:

A Beautiful Case Study on Filtering Highly-Nonlinear Noise (http://maxphoton.com/2007/06/02/a-beautiful-case-study-on-filtering-highlynonlinear-noise.aspx)


Max

[Totovader]

Wait a minute, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are not our friends?

I'm shocked... utterly shocked, I tell you.

[Totovader]

The real function of the claimed destruction of interrogation tapes is to generate the assumptive close that Al Qaeda even exists.

This makes no sense whatsoever. Keeping the tapes would have had the exact same effect- the only difference being that you could not have ignored them. The other various characters, confessions, videos, and tapes I guess were not destroyed to... not keep the claim of Al Qaeda alive?

No, that doesn't make any sense either.

Max, you make no sense.

[Undesired Walrus]

The real function of the claimed destruction of interrogation tapes is to generate the assumptive close that Al Qaeda even exists.

It is imperative that the Al Qaeda illusion be maintained, for after all, what else will serve as the fig leaf to cover up the fact that 911 was an inside job?



I can understand somebody claiming to believe 9/11 to be an inside job, but it takes a certain kind of insanity to claim Al Qeada does not exist.

It's like the Kent Hovind of creationists.

[Gravy]

There's an existing thread about this here: http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=100641

[Max Photon]

I can understand somebody claiming to believe 9/11 to be an inside job, but it takes a certain kind of insanity to claim Al Qaeda does not exist.



Indeed. To claim Al Qaeda does not exist takes the same kind of insanity required to claim that the USDollar does not exist.


ETA:

Here, if you think I'm crazy for claiming Al Qaeda is largely synthetic noise, see what else I think is illusion:

Noise, Damn Noise, and MILDEC-MindWar (http://maxphoton.com/2007/06/17/Noise-Damn-Noise-and-MILDEC-MindWar.aspx)

[Totovader]

Indeed. To claim Al Qaeda does not exist takes the same kind of insanity required to claim that the USDollar does not exist.


ETA:

Here, if you think I'm crazy for claiming Al Qaeda is largely synthetic noise, see what else I think is illusion:

Noise, Damn Noise, and MILDEC-MindWar (http://maxphoton.com/2007/06/17/Noise-Damn-Noise-and-MILDEC-MindWar.aspx)

That link did not clarify a damn thing.

[rwguinn]

does anybody else see the irony here?
In a "conspiracy" involving a (relatively) few people, the CIA was unable to keep the treatment of prisoners a secret for more than a relatively short time.
In a "conspiracy" involving the murder of over 3000, property and economic damage in the hundreds of billion dollars, and damage to our society beyond repair:
6 years and not a peep...

[Par]

Max, you make no sense.


I don't think he cares.

[fuelair]

The alleged destruction of interrogation tapes by the CIA is a red herring.

The apparent function of the destruction is to create an argument as to what they are hiding: Did the CIA use illegal torture on top Al Qaeda operatives?

Don't be an idiot.

The real function of the claimed destruction of interrogation tapes is to generate the assumptive close that Al Qaeda even exists.

It is imperative that the Al Qaeda illusion be maintained, for after all, what else will serve as the fig leaf to cover up the fact that 911 was an inside job?


The same type of assumptive close was being used around Sibel Edmonds:

A Beautiful Case Study on Filtering Highly-Nonlinear Noise (http://maxphoton.com/2007/06/02/a-beautiful-case-study-on-filtering-highlynonlinear-noise.aspx)


Max
You either forgot to add the sarcastic smiley or your intelligence in heavilly in question. Which is it?

[MIKILLINI]

The alleged destruction of interrogation tapes by the CIA is a red herring.

The apparent function of the destruction is to create an argument as to what they are hiding: Did the CIA use illegal torture on top Al Qaeda operatives?

Don't be an idiot.

The real function of the claimed destruction of interrogation tapes is to generate the assumptive close that Al Qaeda even exists.

It is imperative that the Al Qaeda illusion be maintained, for after all, what else will serve as the fig leaf to cover up the fact that 911 was an inside job?


The same type of assumptive close was being used around Sibel Edmonds:

A Beautiful Case Study on Filtering Highly-Nonlinear Noise (http://maxphoton.com/2007/06/02/a-beautiful-case-study-on-filtering-highlynonlinear-noise.aspx)


Max

Gee Max, are you insinuating "The Base" is baseless? And this is what you are basing it on? Talk about way off base.:rolleyes:

[BenBurch]

Just so folks are aware, many of the people we abducted and took to Gitmo turned out to be nothing at all whatsoever other than farmers. We offered such a high bounty for terrorists that people were turning their neighbors in, and as we had nobody who could tell us otherwise, treated all of them as though they were AlQ.

I am somewhat reminded of the plot to "Brazil" here...

[Cicero]

You're a knob.

Is that an acronym? Too cryptic for me.