The CIA destroyed 92 videotapes of terror-suspect interrogations, according to a court document filed by the government on Monday. [CNN]
The tapes were made in 2002 and showed the interrogations of two suspected al Qaeda leaders, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. According to former CIA officer John Kiriakou, some of the videos showed harsh interrogations, including the use of waterboarding, which is said to simulate drowning and is considered by most people to be a form of torture.
The tape destruction is under investigation by John Durham, a federal prosecutor. The disclosure of the number of tapes involved came as part of a federal court proceeding in New York involving an American Civil Liberties Union motion to hold the CIA in contempt of court for destroying the tapes.
So the United States didn’t engage in torture? Of course it did during the Bush administration.
I repeat, the George W. Bush administration committed war crimes and should be prosecuted like any other criminal enterprise for doing so.
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