http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20071207/a_cia07.art.htmCIA destroyed interrogation videos
Director says 2002 records posed risk to identities of questioners
By Alan Gomez
USA TODAY
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Hayden wrote that House and Senate Intelligence Committee leaders were informed of the existence of the tapes and of the agency's plan to destroy them. He said the CIA's internal watchdog also watched the tapes and verified the practices used were legal.
Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., then the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said she informed the CIA in writing at the time that she objected to the destruction of the tapes. On Thursday night, she called it "another self-policing operation gone awry."
"This episode reinforces my view that the CIA should not be conducting a separate interrogation program," she said.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., who was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee from August 2004 until the end of 2006, said through a spokesman he did not recall being informed of the videotapes.
"He believes that Director Hayden is being generous in his claim that the committee was informed," said Jamal Ware, senior adviser to the committee. "He believes the committee should have been fully briefed and consulted on how this was handled."
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