Terror Watch Cia Official Lawyers Up
The lawyer, Robert Bennett, confirmed today that he has been retained by Jose Rodriguez, the former chief of the CIA’s clandestine service. Rodriguez’s testimony is considered essential to official inquiries into why highly sensitive interrogation tapes of key Al Qaeda suspects were destroyed in November, 2005. But Bennett, one of Washington’s premier criminal-defense lawyers, said Rodriguez may decline to testify if he concludes that the probes are a “witch hunt”—a threat that could significantly delay congressional efforts to get to the bottom of the matter....