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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