"...the C.I.A. destroyed hundreds of hours of videotapes " ?

[kentuck]

I thought it was reported tha "two videotapes" were destroyed?? How do you get "hundreds of hours" on two videotapes?? Just curious?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/opinion/09sun2.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

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The administration denies it has stooped to torture in intelligence gathering — despite its post-9/11 record of secret detention programs and rendition kidnappings that outsource interrogations to governments known to use torture. The Times reported last week that the C.I.A. destroyed hundreds of hours of videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Al Qaeda operatives. Congress must find out what was on those tapes and who is responsible for their destruction.

“The C.I.A. program has provided valuable, actionable intelligence,” a White House spokesman insisted, dismissing Congress’s Army Field Manual initiative as “dangerous and misguided.” The new attorney general, Michael Mukasey, twisted himself into knots during his confirmation hearing, refusing to say whether waterboarding was torture and therefore illegal. Small wonder that Congress feels obliged to require that all agencies follow the Army manual’s clear proscription of torture.

There is certainly merit in a Congressional debate. Lawmakers should demand that the White House and its allies explain why intelligence operatives should scoff at a ban on torture that soldiers swear to and is unquestionably the law of the land.

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[shraby]

1. Was wondering that myself. Maybe they have

super duper made in China tapes. :rofl: