AP Exclusive: Terrorist tapes found under CIA desk

[babylonsister]

AP Exclusive: Terrorist tapes found under CIA desk
AP

By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writers – 3 mins ago


WASHINGTON – The CIA has tapes of 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret overseas prison. Discovered under a desk, the recordings could provide an unparalleled look at how foreign governments aided the U.S. in holding and questioning suspected terrorists.

The two videotapes and one audiotape are believed to be the only remaining recordings made within the clandestine prison system.

The tapes depict Binalshibh's interrogation sessions at a Moroccan-run facility the CIA used near Rabat in 2002, several current and former U.S. officials told The Associated Press. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the recordings remain a closely guarded secret.

When the CIA destroyed its cache of 92 videos of two other al-Qaida operatives, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Nashiri, being waterboarded in 2005, officials believed they had wiped away all of the agency's interrogation footage. But in 2007, a staffer discovered a box tucked under a desk in the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and pulled out the Binalshibh tapes.

A Justice Department prosecutor who is already investigating whether destroying the Zubaydah and al-Nashiri tapes was illegal is now also probing why the Binalshibh tapes were never disclosed. Twice, the government told a federal judge they did not exist.

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[CJCRANE]

1. Interesting...

so the tapes the CIA admitted to...have been destroyed but the ones that "didn't exist" have been found...

[deminks]

2. Under whose desk were they found?

Somebody in that misadministration had a jones for torture. This may be the one tape that didn't have much on it. The others may be in somebody's private library somewhere.

In my humble opinion.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Great hiding place

No one would ever think to look under the desk.

That's why our Super Secret Spy guys get the big bucks.

:sarcasm:

[malaise]

4. Maybe there was one agent

who wanted the truth to be exposed.

[Poboy]

5. Look forward! It would make for an uncomfortable situation

for the admin. to have to ignore these tapes, so I predict they will be 'lost'. Again.

[Wilms]

6. They meant CIA Terrorists.

This is a great development, especially because of Obama's unspeakable continuance the torture policies of the War Criminal administration.

[w4rma]

7. Very good. (nt)