For a while, I thought that this humble blog was the only venue paying attention to Larry Johnson's assertion that George W. Bush personally viewed the CIA torture tapes. Now Scott Horton of Harpers gives the claim
an airing.
In this regards, the sequence of statements out of the White House is extremely revealing. It started with firm denials, then went silent and then pulled back rather sharply to a “President Bush has no present recollection of having seen the tapes.” This is a formulation frequently used to avoid perjury charges, a sort of way of saying “no” without really saying “no.”