Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180509:14:27:00
The written record was detailed, accurate and complete. so the consistent legal advice, it never changed, was that there was no legal requirement to retain the tapes, but there were some policy objections to disposing of the tapes. so our job in the office of the deputy director for operations was to arrange consultations with senior leaders at the agency. at the time the tapes were destroyed, mr. rodriguez asked me to prepare a cable because he was going to have another conversation with then-director of the agency to talk about this issue again. i did so. a couple of days later he released t...