Destruction of CIA Interrogation Tapes

Interesting that this info comes to light-- making the CIA look bad-- in the same week the CIA makes Bush/Cheney look bad with the revised Iranian NIE.

Officially, the tapes were destroyed because they showed illegal use of torture by the CIA. This is plausible. However, since 9/11 was an inside job, and information relating to this fact was no doubt on those tapes gives another plausible reason for why tapes of interrogations of 9/11 operatives were destroyed. This second reason has more weight when the fact that the context for destroying these tapes was denying evidence to 9/11 investigators:

The recordings were not provided to a federal court hearing the case of the terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui or to the Sept. 11 commission, which had made formal requests to the C.I.A. for transcripts and any other documentary evidence taken from interrogations of agency prisoners.

This evidence was also denied during the Jose Padilla trial.