Destroyed Videotapes Fail to Mask the Ugly Reality of Torture
8 Dec 2007 00:39 Africa/Lagos Destroyed Videotapes Fail to Mask the Ugly Reality of Torture Congress, Justice Department Must Investigate Destruction of Interrogation Videotapes WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Open Society Policy Center (OSPC) today urged Congress to investigate the destruction of videotapes of interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency and called for legislation requiring all CIA interrogations to be videotaped. "This is truly a case in which a destroyed picture speaks a thousand words," said OSPC Deputy Director Stephen Rickard. Intelligence experts believe that the CIA was afraid of how the public would react if they actually saw these interrogations in living color and knew that the tapes would provoke a strong reaction. OSPC called on Congress to conduct oversight investigations into the destruction of the tapes and to legislate a requirement that all CIA interrogations be videotaped. It also demanded that the Justice Dep...