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CIA `hielt' Klebebänder von 9/11 Prüfspitze
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Ein ausgelaufenes Protokoll von der ehemaligen 9/11 Kommission sagt, daß es wiederholte Anträge zum CIA zu Information auf der Befragung der Al-Qaeda Verdächtiger bildete. Aber Exkommission Executivdirektor Philip Zelikow sagt, daß der CIA nicht Klebebänder überreichte, die haben, seit ans Licht gekommen, die berichteten New York Zeiten.
Der CIA löschte später die Gesamtlänge, die angeblich Bilder des Mißbrauches enthält.
Das Protokoll drängt auf eine weitere Untersuchung in, ob die Agentur illegal nach dem Zurückhalten der Aufnahmen verfuhr.
The CIA says there was no specific request for the tapes, which reportedly contained images of interrogation techniques including water-boarding, which simulates drowning. The CIA denies torture.
‘Clearly obstructed’
The agency filmed the footage in 2002 and erased it in 2005, a year after the commission ended its work.
The commission conducted an internal review earlier this month after the deleted CIA tapes came to light.
A copy of Mr Zelikow’s findings, dated 13 December, was obtained by The New York Times.
His memorandum notes the commission asked the CIA in 2003 and 2004 for “documents”, “reports” and “information” relating to interrogations.
But, the report says, a CIA director replied in 2004 that it had already “produced or made available for review” all relevant material.
Mr Zelikow’s seven-page findings conclude “further investigation is needed” to determine if the CIA’s withholding of the tapes violated federal law.
It notes that it is illegal to “knowingly and wilfully” withhold or “cover up” a “material fact” from a federal inquiry.
The CIA insisted on Saturday it had gone to great lengths to help the commission, which was set up to investigate al-Qaeda’s 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.
The agency’s spokesman Mark Mansfield said: “Because it was thought the commission could ask about tapes at some point, they were not destroyed while the commission was active.”
But one of the commission chairmen, former Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton, told the New York Times the CIA had “clearly obstructed” the commission’s work.
The CIA and the Department of Justice have already launched an inquiry into the erasing of the tapes.
The agency said the footage was deleted to protect the identities of agents and because it was no longer of intelligence value.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7157993.stm
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