| Written by Jason Leopold |
| Monday, 02 March 2009 11:45 |
By Jason Leopold Previously, the CIA said signaled that it had only destroyed two videotapes and one audiotape of harsh interrogations. But on Tuesday, in a letter filed in federal court in New York, Acting U.S. Attorney Lev Dassin said, "Ninety two videotapes were destroyed." The new disclosure was made in response to a motion filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in December 2007, which had sought to hold the CIA in contempt for failing to produce the videotapes and other documentary evidence of the Bush administration's interrogation program and the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody. CIA Inspector General John Helgerson, who recently announced his retirement from the agency, viewed the videotapes that showed two detainees being subjected to waterboarding by CIA officers, which formed the foundation for his still classified report on the CIA's methods of interrogation. |
Torture Tapes Destroyed After CIA Watchdog Determined Methods Illegal
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