"Tapegate" Comes to the White House
(CBS)
The morning’s big news — a New York Times story, which steers the CIA videotape scandal right into the heart of the White House and the Justice Department — is as important as it is unsurprising.
Naturally, when the touchy subject came up in 2005, the Administration’s top legal officials were called upon to discuss the pros and cons of destroying material evidence about the CIA’s interrogation tactics. Of course, at the center of these discussions were two presidential lackeys, then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and then-White House counsel Harriet Miers. And what would a controversial (and ultimately disastrous) executive branch action meeting be without the dark and ruthless presence of David Addington, then counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney?
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