BRIEF: 9/11 Commission: CIA Concealed Interrogation Tapes

WASHINGTON, United States – The 9/11 Commission has concluded that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) withheld tapes of Al Qaeda interrogations during its investigation of the agency following the September 11th terrorist attacks.  The CIA claimed at the time that they had “produced or made available for review” all materials that had been requested.

This 9/11 Commission finding comes in the context of reports of methods of torture and claims that the CIA destroyed taped interrogations of Al Qaeda operatives to avoid scrutiny.

The CIA now claims that the 9/11 commission never specifically asked for the interrogation tapes and that the agency would have disclosed these materials.

For more information, please see:

The New York Times – 9/11 Panel Study Finds that CIA Withheld Tapes – 22 December 2007

CNN – Judge Orders Hearing on Destroyed CIA Videotapes – 18 December 2007

Time – Probing the CIA Tapes – Carefully – 13 December 2007