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"I would look at the intel community as the same as the military in that there should be civilian control of big decisions - who to go to war against, who to launch an attack against, who to fight a particular battle," he said.
2004 According to the Times article, Eatinger and another CIA attorney, Steven Hermes, advised Rodriguez that he "had the authority to destroy the tapes and that the destruction would violate no laws."
2004 In June 2004, Eatinger attended a meeting at the White House with Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, John Bellinger, and Scott Muller discussing what to do with tapes the CIA had made of harsh interrogations.
2004 Tapes were destroyed by the CIA. Mr. Jose Rodrieguez, former CIA clandestine branch chief, who ordered the destruction of the tapes, has said through his attorney that he based his decision on legal advice from CIA lawyers Steven Hermes and Robert Eat
2014 Administration officials have suggested that Eatinger and Hermes most likely offered their advice under the expectation that Rodriguez would subsequently pursue further approvals, as would normally be the practice.
2014 Eatinger's name came into the public eye on 11 March 2014, when he was mentioned by title (not name) in the speech by Senator Dianne Feinstein related to her accusations of criminal spying behavior, and Constitutional "separation of powers"...
2014 Feinstein also said that the CIA's acting general counsel, later identified as Robert Eatinger, requested the FBI conduct a criminal inquiry into the committee staff who had accessed and relocated the "Panetta Review" documents.
2014 Feinstein stated that Eatinger's name was mentioned "over 1600 times" in the classified torture report produced by the SSCI.
2020 Yahoo News - Exclusive: Secret Trump order gives CIA more powers to launch cyberattacks
Eatinger, the former top CIA attorney, who retired in 2015, said it's unclear to him whether the new cyber finding would be a return to the agency's more freewheeling days of the 1980s, or something that goes even further. Either way, it's a "big deal," he