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CIA Withheld Tapes From 9/11 Panel

Posted Dec 22, 07 7:57 AM CST in US 

(Newser) – The 9/11 Commission made repeated requests to the CIA for details on the interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects and were told they'd been given everything the CIA had, the New York Times reports. A member of the commission reviewed classified records of the panel's work after the CIA said the agency would have turned over the now-destroyed tapes but had never been asked for them. The commission's two chairmen say they are now convinced that the CIA deliberately tried to obstruct the inquiry.

The review, prepared by Philip Zelikow, the panel’s former executive director, concluded that “further investigation is needed” to determine whether the CIA broke the law in withholding the tapes. His report will be turned over to investigators. “I don’t know whether that’s illegal or not, but it’s certainly wrong,” said Thomas Kean, one of the commission's chairmen and a former governor of New Jersey.

Source New York Times

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Justice Department attorney Joseph Hunt, right, who presented the government's case regarding the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Carl Nichols, left, leave...   (Associated Press)
CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007, following a closed-door meeting with the House Intelligence Committee on the issue of destroyed...   (Associated Press)
Central Intelligence Agency Gen. Director Michael Hayden, center, peers out of a doorway on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007, following a closed-door briefing before the Senate Intelligence...   (Associated Press)
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