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Inquiry Begins Into Tapes’ Destruction
The Justice Department and CIA announced a joint inquiry Saturday into the spy agency’s destruction of videotapes of interrogations of two suspected terrorists.
The review will determine whether a full investigation is warranted.
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The decision to destroy the tapes was made by Jose Rodriguez, then the head of the CIA’s clandestine directorate of operations under CIA Director Porter Goss. Neither works at the agency today.
