There are so many twists to the story that are typical of the current state of American polity. Of course Democrats in Congress knew about the tape, about the tapes planned destruction, and its actual destruction, and only now that the thing had been plastic chips for two years express concern. And of course, at National Review, they haven't mentioned the CIA at all in three days (although the letters turn up in the middle of words like "superficially" and "racially" (I'm sure the story bores them).
There's this neat twist:
Zubaydah, wounded when he was captured in Pakistan, was fooled in a fake flag operation to believe that the Saudis held him. Instead of being afraid of the ‘Saudis,’ he demanded to talk to three Saudi princes (one, the nephew of the King, who happened to be in the U.S. on 9/11). He gave his interrogators the private cell phone numbers of all 3. He did the same regarding the chief of Pakistan’s air force.
After the U.S. told the Saudis and Pakistanis of Zubaydah’s finger pointing, all four men had tragic ‘accidents.’ The King’s nephew died of complications from liposuction at the age of 43. A day later, the 41 year old Prince named by Zubaydah died in a one-car accident on his way to the funeral of the King’s nephew. The third named prince, age 25, died a week later of “thirst,” according to the Saudi Royal Court. And shortly after that, the chief of Pakistan’s air force died when his plane exploded with his wife and 15 of his top aides on board.
Make the interrogation tapes public and then we’ll know whether one of the top al Qaeda operatives accused leading Saudi royals and a top Pakistani military man - now all dead - of being his sponsors. And accused two of them – the King’s nephew and the Pakistani air force chief – of having advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.
Did the CIA take those guys out? If so, pretty basadd.
Like so many of the best stories of our times, this one story is at once awesome and disgusting.
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