Scoop Link: Pentagon Cites Tapes Showing Interrogations
By Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane
The New York Times
Washington - The Defense Department is conducting an extensive review of the videotaping of interrogations at military
facilities from Iraq to Guantánamo Bay, and so far it has identified nearly 50 tapes, including one that showed what a
military spokesman described as the forcible gagging of a terrorism suspect.
The Pentagon review was begun in late January after the Central Intelligence Agency acknowledged that it had destroyed
its own videotapes of harsh interrogations conducted by C.I.A. officers, an action that is now the subject of criminal
and Congressional investigations.
The review was intended in part to establish clearer rules for any videotaping of interrogations, Defense officials
said. But they acknowledged that it had been complicated by inconsistent taping practices in the past, as well as
uncertain policies for when tapes could be destroyed or must be preserved.
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