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Jose rodrigez, the man who would destroy those tapes, received legal guidance from two cia lawyers that he had the authority to destroy the tapes and the destruction would violate no laws. on that advice, he ordered the tapes destroyed. one of the lawyers who gave that advice was robert ettinger, the man who is right now the cia's acting general counsel. and so the cia destroyed those tapes, when this became public, people went appropriately apoplectic. and an investigation was precipitated, the investigation that is now being fought over. now robert ettinger is representing the cia as it goes...

That means, is that the position of the top lawyer to the cia will continue to be occupied by a man of the name robert ettinger. oddser, you've never heard of robert ettinger, and you're not alone. it is worth explaining this man's record. do you remember this headline? we would later learn the chief of the cia's clandestine branch ordered the destruction of 92 videotapes of enhanced interrogation or what i refer to as torture. tapes of torture, torture tapes. torture is a crime under american law. these tapes were plausible evidence of the possibility of those crimes having been committed so ...

And years later, the lawyer who says is intimidating her committee, is the same lawyer who gave the green light to destroying tapes showing that torture. joining me now, liza goiteen, i can't really believe that this is the case. it seems to me at the very least, this lawyer needs to recuse himself from anything having to do with this report? >> well, that's certainly would seem to be one possible solution, in that it doesn't look good, it looks very much like retribution on this lawyer's part for a report that made the agency look bad and made him look bad. but i think it would be a mistake t...

Is it cool if we destroy videotapes of us torturing someone? jose rodrigez, the man who would destroy those tapes, received legal guidance from two cia lawyers that he had the authority to destroy the tapes and the destruction would violate no laws. on that advice, he ordered the tapes destroyed. one of the lawyers who gave that advice was robert ettinger, the man who is right now the cia's acting general counsel. and so the cia destroyed those tapes, when this became public, people went appropriately apoplectic. and an investigation was precipitated, the investigation that is now being fought...

Is preparing 1600 times, according to the committee's chair woman senator dianne feinstein. yesterday, dianne feinstein went out of her way to call out ettinger though stopping short of mentioning him by name. >> i view the acting counsel general's referral as a potential effort to intimidate this staff, and i am not taking it lightly. from mid-2004 until the official termination of the detention and interrogation program in january 2009 he was the unit's chief lawyer. he is mentioned by name more than 1600 times in our study. and now this individual is sending a crimes report to the departmen...