CIA Admits to Destruction of 92 Interview Tapes

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clipped from news.bbc.co.uk 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." 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.