The CIA's 2005 destruction of interrogation videotapes occurred despite objections from President George W. Bush's White House counsel and the director of national intelligence.
Notes on verification
Multiple independent, reputable news sources (Washington Post, CNN, NBC, Fox News) and civil liberties documentation corroborate that CIA officials destroyed interrogation tapes in 2005 despite objections from White House counsel and the DNI's office. [tier=silver indep_score=0.9 clusters=5 claim_tier=exceptional]
Sources
- The Senate Torture Report and Investigative Journalism (seed:military_and_intelligence)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-senate-report-on-the-cias-interrogation-program-should-be-made-public/2014/04/10/eeeb237a-c0c3-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html (corroboration)
- https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/government-has-information-gina-haspels-torture-record-senate-cant (corroboration)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna36589750 (corroboration)
- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-cia-lawyers-angry-at-tape-destruction (corroboration)
- https://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/16/cia.tapes/index.html (corroboration)