Talk:Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit

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I've always had a hard time with this stupid thing. Does the CIA think we have absolutely no brains? None at all? There was video taken, but no sound recording? What the fuck? If you want to hide the fact that you knew more about 9/11 than you let on, just don't tell us about things like this - don't try to make us swallow ridiculous nonsense. Argh! Bad, bad CIA. Graft 22:37, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I'm not saying that CIA was innocent, but it's plausable that there was video but not audio taping. This often happens with regard to the FBI. U.S. laws regarding audio-taping are very strict; a judge's order is required, or one of the people being taped has to have given their permission. Otherwise the case can be thrown out in court. Video-taping has no such restrictions, simply because the laws were made before videotaping was possible. Now this is the CIA, not the FBI, and their goal was to spy on this group, not build up a solid court case against them. Still, it was the Malaysian government that did the taping (at the CIA's request), not the CIA itself. I don't know jack about Malaysian law, but it's possible they had some similar restriction. Just speculation. Quadell (talk) 15:59, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC)