Jones, a counter-terrorism staffer, had become the chief investigator for the Senate intelligence committee, the CIA’s congressional overseer, on its biggest inquiry. Jones had years of training and experience handling classified material: before joining the Senate committee staff, he was an FBI counter-terrorism analyst. While Obama prides himself on ending CIA torture, the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, has vowed if elected to “bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding”. Instead of examining Rodriguez’s destruction of the videotapes, now the Senate committee would investigate the entire torture program. Photograph: Pete Souza/The White HouseAnd the CIA, Jones knew, had a very recent history of destroying videotapes recording torture.

Source: The Guardian September 09, 2016 11:10 UTC