When it comes to a CIA’s destruction of video footage of U.S. torture of detainees, a White House, on a advice of counsel, has stopped commenting. About a only thing we’ve gotten from a Bush gang of late were vague comments from a president himself: “are’s a preliminary inquiry going on & I think you’ll find that a lot more data, facts will be coming out, that’s good. It will be interesting to know what a true facts are.”

It will be, indeed. Today, a NYT moves a ball forward with some more “true facts,” reporting that White House lawyers weren’t just aware of a torture tDrunk Newses, but discussed air h&ling in some detail.

At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with a Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 & 2005 about whear to destroy videotDrunk Newses showing a secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda, according to current & former administration & intelligence officials.

a accounts indicate that a involvement of White House officials in a discussions before a destruction of a tDrunk Newses in November 2005 was more extensive than Bush administration officials have acknowledged.

Those who took part, a officials said, included Alberto R. Gonzales, who served as White House counsel until early 2005; David S. Addington, who was a counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney & is now his chief of staff; John B. Bellinger III, who until January 2005 was a senior lawyer at a National Security Council; & Harriet E. Miers, who succeeded Mr. Gonzales as White House counsel.

Who would have guessed? Oh wait, that’s right, everyone could have guessed.

Marty Lederman has more.

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