Tapes of Terrorist Interviews Destroyed by CIA

Our Central Intelligence Agency has destroyed the video taped recordings of their interviews with known terrorist Abu Zubaydah and Ramzi Binalshibh, an accomplice in the 9/11 attacks. The interviews with these terror suspects led to the capture of King Jihadikaze - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the driving force behind 9/11.

CIA Director Michael Hayden said the tapes were destroyed after they were no longer of any intelligence value and to protect identities of CIA agents. Hayden also felt the media and Al-Qaeda supporters would have a field day if these tapes were ever leaked.

In 2003 the Senate Intelligence Committee was aware the CIA intended to destroy the tapes when they were deemed to be of no more value. Not necessarily agreeing, but never directly telling the CIA specifically NOT to destroy the tapes, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va & senior democrat Rep. Jane Harman at the time are now screaming for an investigation.

"I told the CIA that destroying videotapes of interrogations was a bad idea and urged them in writing not to do it," Harman said. While key lawmakers were briefed on the CIA's intention to destroy the tapes, they were not notified two years later when the spy agency went through with the plan. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said the committee only learned of the tapes' destruction in November 2006.

I fully agree that the CIA should have destroyed these tapes, but I have to question the intelligence they used dealing with these videotapes. Whether you agree or disagree with the methods used in these interviews, the work of US agencies combating terror has prevented at least 19 attacks on American soil and the capture of the King Jihadikaze behind 9/11.

In 2005 the CIA told U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema they did not have any tapes. Then in a not so intelligent move....

Last month, the CIA admitted to Brinkema and a circuit judge that it had failed to hand over tapes of enemy combatant witnesses. Those interrogations were not part of the CIA's detention program and were not conducted or recorded by the agency, the agency said.

"The CIA did not say to the court in its original filing that it had no terrorist tapes at all. It would be wrong to assert that," CIA spokesman George Little said. More....

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