Sources: Destroyed CIA Videotapes Were Hundreds of Hours; No Transcripts Made

Source: FOX

WASHINGTON — The destroyed CIA videotapes at the center of a growing investigation recorded roughly a "couple hundred hours" with two terror suspects, a small portion of which showed interrogators using "enhanced" interrogation methods that might have included waterboarding.

But, U.S. officials tell FOX News, no transcripts of the standard, VHS-style videotapes ever were made. That would mean the only record of what happened during the interrogations captured on the tapes appears to lie in interrogators' summaries that were sent electronically from the sites of the interrogation back to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.

The officials said that the overwhelming majority of the tapes recorded Abu Zubaydah, who after being waterboarded gave CIA agents information leading to Sept. 11, 2001, plotter Ramzi Binalshibh. The remainder of the now-destroyed tapes featured Abd Al-Nashiri, who was Usama Bin Laden's point-man in the Persian Gulf region, and is alleged to have coordinated the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen that killed 17 sailors.

Much of the tape, the officials said, was the equivalent of surveillance of Zubaydah in his cell. The tapes were taken in 2002, and the CIA destroyed them in 2005.

The information comes as CIA Director Michael Hayden completes his second day of briefing lawmakers on Capitol Hill following the disclosure last week that the tapes were destroyed.



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FOX pushing the propaganda for BushCo. I call bullshit on this.

Prosecutor in Trial of 9/11 Conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui Informs Judges That He Viewed Two Videos of al-Qaida Suspects' Interrogations Two Months Ago That Government Told Court in 2003 It Didn't Have -- And CIA Chief Said Were Destroyed

By Skeeter Sanders

A letter by a Virginia-based U.S. attorney to a federal appeals court appears to contradict CIA Director Michael Hayden's public statements on the destruction of hundreds of hours of video footage of "extreme" interrogations of suspected al-Qaida operatives by strongly indicating that at least two of the videos still exist.

Charles Rosenberg, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, wrote that his office viewed two videotapes of CIA interrogations of al-Qaida suspects as recently as September 19 and October 18 of this year -- contrary to Hayden's statement that the tapes were destroyed in 2005.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2440818

I'm sure they have multiple copies, hundreds of transcripts, and a GMO popcorn strain specifically created to watch this.

:puke:

Lap it up, people. Like the guy in "Brazil", you'll probably have a front row seat some day.

How high will it go?

documenting a need for impeachment, which, as we all know, is off the table.

The Dems are good at picking up a hot trail, bellowing and yelping as they set out after the quarry, and then letting the whole thing kinda fizzle. When's the last time they actually followed the fox all the way back to its den?

What about the fighting that seems to be going on between the WH and the CIA? Will anyone be pushed out or thrown under?

I guess the CIA will have only one recourse--to start assassinating people.

is good at laying false trails also and its also a master at escaping.

and watched the foxes run away like maybe they weren't really interested in catching them.

couple of hundred hours....

nice phrase. Rough Trade indeed!

Up pops our favorite Bush "news" propaganda site FOX saying "no transcripts exits" for these interrogations. Well that's amazing not just in it's timing but in the fact that it flies in the face of all procedure when one is interrogating a subject ( not least of which one of this magnitude and under such extraordinary conditions.)


FOX always there with the bull flying when the administration needs cover.

Is there a fly on the wall or a james bond spy on the DU site? OF course! that's what free speech is. They should try it over there at the Bush administration.

and viola straight from the propaganda arm of Bushco

and participants

and victims

there needs to be a lot open testimony on this awfulness

Wonder if they toasted hotdogs or marshmallows.

vhs? are they serious? with the technology at their disposal we're supposed to believe they used a 80s camcorder? and no transcripts? simply unbelievable.

you can't believe anything they say.