[Peace-discuss] Fw: [laborsmilitantvoice] CIA destroyed 92 interview tapes

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BBC

CIA destroyed 92 interview tapes
File photo of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui
The tapes were an issue in the trial of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui

The Central intelligence Agency (CIA) has destroyed 92 tapes of 
interviews conducted with terror suspects, a US government lawyer has 
admitted.

The agency had previously said that it had destroyed only two tapes.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a lawsuit 
against the CIA to seek details of the interrogations of terror 
suspects.

Techniques involved are understood to have included water-boarding, 
which the Obama administration says is torture.

The acknowledgment of the 92 destroyed tapes came in a letter sent to 
the judge presiding over the ACLU lawsuit.

"The CIA can now identify the number of videotapes that were 
destroyed," the letter by acting US Attorney Lev Dassin, obtained by 
the BBC, said. "Ninety-two videotapes were destroyed."

Classified?

The letter, dated 2 March, said the CIA was gathering more details 
for the lawsuit, such as a list of the destroyed records, any 
secondary accounts describing what was on the destroyed tapes, and 
the identities of those who may have viewed or possessed the 
recordings before their destruction.

CIA 'ENHANCED INTERROGATION' TECHNIQUES
Water-boarding: prisoner bound, with cellophane wrapped round his 
head. Water is poured onto his face and is said to produce a fear of 
drowning
Cold cell: prisoner made to stand naked in a cold, though not 
freezing, cell and doused with water
Standing: Prisoners stand for 40 hours and more, shackled to the floor
Belly slap: a hard slap to the stomach with an open hand. This is 
designed to be painful but not to cause injury
Source: Described to ABC News by un-named CIA agents in 2005

Government lawyers said some of the information may be classified.

"The CIA intends to produce all of the information requested to the 
court and to produce as much information as possible on the public 
record to the plaintiffs," the letter said.

In 2005 a judge ordered the preservation of all evidence regarding 
the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

In December 2007, the CIA revealed that two tapes from interviews had 
been destroyed five months after the ruling.

But the agency said the ruling did not apply to the destroyed tapes, 
as they concerned interrogations that took place before the suspects 
had been transferred to Guantanamo.

The agency's chief said the recordings had been made in 2002 as an 
internal check, and had been erased because they no longer had an 
intelligence value and could permit identification of CIA officers.

In January 2008, the justice department launched an investigation to 
answer questions over the tapes.

Tapes were a contentious issue during the trial of 9/11 conspirator 
Zacarias Moussaoui, who was jailed for his part in the attacks.

Prosecutors initially claimed there were no recordings of his 
interrogation, but then acknowledged video and audio tapes had been 
made.

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are the strong devouring the weak; its theory of the world of men and 
women is that of a glorified pig-trough where the biggest swine gets 
the most swill." -James Connolly 1910.

Richard Mellor
AFSCME Local 444 retired
Oakland CA
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