It's Always the Cover Up

I generally don't buy into conspiracy theories because I think it's just too difficult for a group of people to keep a secret, either someone gets tempted by money or fame, their conscious begins to weigh on them, their sloppy in the original crime's execution or they just want to tell one other person so they seem "in the know." That's not to say that they don't happen it's just that I don't thin kthey happen with as much frequency as some people do. In any event, the Achilles heel of the conspiracies that do occur is the cover-up.

As far as the illegal Bush/Cheney torture fiesta is concerned, there is already an investigation under way digging into how and why CIA tapes of torture sessions were destroyed and now comes this news out of Libya.

From Andrew Sullivan one of the best bloggers out there...

And so Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi was first captured by the US and tortured by CIA surrogates in an Egyptian cell. Apparently, they beat him and put him in a coffin for 17 hours as a mock-burial. To end the severe mental and physical suffering, he confessed that Saddam had trained al Qaeda terrorists in deploying WMDs. This evidence was then cited by Colin Powell as part of the rationale for going to war in Iraq. Bingo!...

...And as for al-Libi, a man who could also flesh out the details of his torture and what Cheney forced him to say ... well, for a long time, he simply went missing:

"I would speculate that he was missing because he was such an embarrassment to the Bush administration," said Tom Malinowski, the head of the Washington office of Human Rights Watch. "He was Exhibit A in the narrative that tortured confessions contributed to the massive intelligence failure that preceded the Iraq war."

Yesterday, he [al-Libi] was found dead in a Libyan jail, an apparent "suicide".

Interesting to say the least.