Via the Submitterator, Boing Boing reader insert says, “Despite pending lawsuits, in 2005, the CIA destroyed videotapes of its ‘harsh interrogation techniques’ (translated from Newspeak, that means torture). When anybody else does this, it’s obstruction of justice. But when CIA agents do it, it is ‘heroic’ and ‘patriotic.’ The Department of Justice’s investigation just happened to take long enough that the statute of limitations ran out.”