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August 17, 2010

Videotapes from Secret CIA Prison Uncovered
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The Associated Press has revealed the CIA has tapes of 9/11 plotter
Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret overseas prison in
Morocco. The two videotapes and one audiotape are believed to be the
only remaining recordings made within the secret prison system. In 2005,
the CIA destroyed ninety-two videos of other prisoners being
interrogated and tortured. At the time, the agency believed they had
wiped away all of the agency’s interrogation footage, but the tapes of
Binalshibh were later discovered in a box under a desk in the CIA’s
Counterterrorism Center. A Justice Department prosecutor who is already
investigating whether destroying the other torture 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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