CIAgate
CIA destroyed terror interrogation tapes
The CIA has admitted to destroying 92 videotapes of interrogation sessions with terrorist suspects.
The revelation that far more tapes had been destroyed than previously acknowledged came in a letter filed by US government lawyers in New York.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking more details of the Bush administration's terror interrogation programmes following the September 11 attacks.
"The CIA can now identify the number of videotapes that were destroyed. Ninety two videotapes were destroyed," said the letter written by Lev Dassin, the acting US attorney.
Amrit Singh, an ACLU lawyer, said the CIA should be held in contempt of court for holding back the information for so long.
"The large number of videotapes destroyed confirms that the agency engaged in a systematic attempt to hide evidence of its illegal interrogations and to evade the court's order," she said in a statement.
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