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Press Briefing by Tony Fratto
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
Q The CIA has now declassified a letter that Representative Jane Harman sent the CIA in February of 2003 raising questions about -- and concerns that they were going to destroy these interrogation videotapes. My question is, if a Democratic member of Congress knew in 2003 about the existence of the tapes and about their possible destruction, why would that have not filtered its way to the President? If lawmakers were being briefed, why wasn't the President briefed by the CIA?
MR. FRATTO: That's not -- that's just not something I can comment on. I'm not going to be able to talk about any deliberations that occurred here. As you saw, the Attorney General made his announcement that they're moving to an investigation stage in this, and the counsel we have is to not make comments that might in any way influence that.
Q But are you surprised that they wouldn't have looped him in -- I mean, without judging why they did or didn't -- but were you surprised that it wouldn't meander its way to --
MR. FRATTO: I think to answer that question would require me to comment in a way that wouldn't be appropriate.
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