CIA cooperation

CIA: You didn't ask for the tapes.

Commission: We asked for everything. You didn't tell us the tapes existed.

CIA: We were very cooperative with your requests. We preserved the tapes in case you guessed they existed.

Commission: John McLaughlin said you gave us everything responsive. You don't think a videotape is a document?

CIA: A videotape might be documentation, but only something on paper is a document. Or maybe email. At least for now.

Commission: So no one in the agency ever wrote a memo on the existence of the tapes?

CIA: See, that's one of those times when when the tapeness of a memo turns it from a document into something tapey, and since you didn't ask specifically for documentation related to videotapes, there's no way you could expect us to hand it over. But we were very cooperative. You couldn't have written your narrative without our information.

Commission: Which is why we needed all of it.

CIA: We gave you everything you asked for.

Commission: Is there anything else you have that we supposedly didn't ask for?

CIA: We always cooperate with commissions while they are active.