C.I.A. Destroyed Torture Interrogation Tapes
06 December 2007 4:34 pm by Taylor Marsh
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Because after all you can’t get caught torturing suspects when you’ve said
“We don’t torture.”
The videotapes showed agency operatives in 2002 subjecting terror suspects
— including Abu Zubaydah, the first detainee in C.I.A. custody —
to severe interrogation techniques. They were destroyed in part because officers
were concerned that tapes documenting controversial interrogation methods
could expose agency officials to greater risk of legal jeopardy, several officials
said.The C.I.A. said today that the decision to destroy the tapes had been made
“within the C.I.A. itself,” and they were destroyed to protect
the safety of undercover officers and because they no longer had intelligence
value. The agency was headed at the time by Porter J. Goss. Through a spokeswoman,
Mr. Goss declined this afternoon to comment on the destruction of the tapes.
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