Jeff Stein has a long profile of Steven Kappes in the Washingtonian that challenges Kappes’ reputation for competence. For example, he points out how Kappes tried to get Jeff Castelli–the guy in charge of the notoriously incompetent Abu Omar rendition–placed in charge of CIA’s NY office. And he describes how Kappes helped the officer in [...]

Not only was Jose Rodriguez responsible for the destruction of the torture tapes, he appears to have been responsible for preventing any real oversight of the bungling kidnapping of Abu Omar.