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Speculation:
1. If one interrogation of prisoners we held was taped you should assume that all interrogations were taped. No matter where it was done if the US Military or Intelligence communities had anything to do with it there was a procedure somewhere that said either 'no cameras allowed' or 'all interrogations will be recorded'. This country doesn't do anything ad lib, our institutions are a strictly controlled by their own rules for memorializing their activities as the Germans were with their records at the WW-II death camps. These old dogs do not learn new tricks.
2. Every person present at an interrogation, every person assigned to a unit that performed interrogations, every person from Porter Goss on down to whoever flipped on the switch on the camera can be identified and brought into Congressional hearings and compelled to give testimony that will paint a vivid picture of what took place.
3. You can bet the farm there was more than one copy and this is a digital world, not a tape world. The file(s) had to be down loaded into other machine(s) and disk(s) had to be produced before they could be destroyed. Start the search for additional copies.
4. If someone doesn't go to jail for a long time over this purposeful destruction of evidence a precedent will have been set and it will certainly become commonplace in both the CIA and the Military.
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