Monday, March 2, 2009

CIA Admits 'Terror Tapes' Destroyed

The US Central Intelligence Agency has destroyed 92 tapes of interrogations of"terror" suspects, far more than previously acknowledged, the agency has said.The disclosure on Monday came in a letter filed by US government lawyers as part of a lawsuit brought by a US rights group over interrogation programmes operated under the Bush administration following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

"The large number of videotapes destroyed confirms that the agency engaged in a systematic attempt to hide evidence of its illegal interrogations," Amrit Singh of the American Civil Liberities Union (ACLU) said in a statement.

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