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WHEN IT destroyed at least two videotapes of the interrogation of captured al-Qaeda operatives, the Central Intelligence Agency may have eliminated evidence of criminal activity. Abu Zubaida, one of ...

Earlier today, we appeared in court for a hearing on our motion to hold the CIA in contempt of the court for destroying 92 videotapes depicting torture of two prisoners, Abu Zubaydah and Abd Al-Rahim ...

During today’s nomination hearing for Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, Haspel testified about a topic that has rightly generated significant controversy: the destruction of ...

You don’t have to be a law student to know that in 2005, when the CIA destroyed hundreds of hours of videotapes of “coercive interrogations” in its secret prisons—including waterboarding and other ...

The unanswered questions about those destroyed CIA interrogation tapes are piling up: Is it possible that one man, Jose Rodriquez Jr., head of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, took it upon ...