The House Intelligence Committee threatened on Wednesday to subpoena two top CIA officials to testify about the destruction of interrogation videotapes, rejecting a Bush administration request that the panel's inquiry be deferred while the executive branch investigates.
Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, said he wants acting CIA general counsel John Rizzo and Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the National Clandestine Service, to testify to the committee on Jan. 16. Rodriguez is the official who directed that the tapes, which document the harsh interrogation of two al-Qaida suspects in 2002, be destroyed.
Reyes told reporters the CIA had agreed to begin providing documents regarding the 2005 destruction of the tapes this week. If that doesn't happen, the committee will subpoena them, too, he said.
Perhaps watching Senator Dodd stand up to these bullies has inspired the rest of the Democrats to find their spines and decide to do their damn jobs!
I would say I was proud if I wasn't terrified they will drop the ball again.
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