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When graphic photographs of American soldiers abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in 2004, they sparked international outrage and prompted new scrutiny of how the U.S. treats its prisoners.
Even though Abu Ghraib itself wasnt a CIA-run facility, the agency was worried about the scandals ramifications.
Thats because the CIA was in possession of something that was potentially more explosive than the detainee abuse photos: hundreds of hours of videotaped enhanced interrogations of two Al Qaeda suspects in CIA detention, that included the use of techniques widely described as torture.
As FRONTLINE details in tonights new documentary, Secrets, Politics and Torture, those tapes would never see the light of day. Their destruction was ordered by Jose Rodriguez, then the CIAs top operations officer.
I was told, if those videotapes had ever been seen, the reaction around the world would not have been survivable, Jane Mayer of The New Yorker tells FRONTLINE.
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