BUSH SAYS HE WILL NOT COMMENT ON DESTRUCTION OF CIA INTERROGATION TAPES UNTIL THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT COMPLETES ITS INTERROGATION
By R J Shulman
WASHINGTON – In a press conference today, President George W. Bush said he couldn’t comment on the legality of the destruction of the CIA interrogation tapes. “Before I can make any commentations on these tapes that are missing in action,” he said, “we have to let our investigators get to the bottom of the barrel to see who has been springing leaks to the New York Times about what I was supposed to have remembered to have forgotten. This is a very large administration,” he continued, “and the American people must understand it will take some time to get out a report as our investigators are drowning in paperwork.”

While the CIA has acknowledged that the tapes have been destroyed, the Post Times Sun Dispatch has learned in an exclusive interview with a reliable source that the destruction may have been inadvertent. Under a promise of anonymity, a highly placed source said the graphic interrogation tapes became unusable after they were viewed one too many times by Vice President Dick Cheney. “”Cheney was watching the TV and howling with laughter,” the source said after being promised entrance into the witness protection program, “I thought he was watching something funny like a Seinfeld episode, but it was a show about some foreigner who fell into a pool while being strapped to a board on his back and yelling for someone to help him out. What’s so funny about that?”