The United States intelligence agency the CIA has confirmed that it destroyed at least two video tapes, showing its agents interrogating Al-Qaeda suspects when its secret detention program was under scrutiny two years ago. They are thought to show suspects being subjected to harsh interrogation techniques. Justin Webb reports from Washington. 

In a letter to all CIA employees, the agency’s director Michael Hayden said the video tapes posed a serious security risk were they ever to leak they would permit identification of your CIA colleagues exposing them and their families to retaliation from Al-Qaeda and its sympathizers. The CIA explanation for the destruction of the tapes is not accepted by civil liberty groups and by some senior politicians here who point out that the CIA has been asked in the past about interrogation tapes, for instance, by the 911 commission and has denied their existence. 


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美国情报部门中情局确认他们销毁了至少两盒内容为2年前其扣押计划还处于严密审查阶段时情报人员审问可疑的基地组织成员的录影带。这两盒录影带被认为记录了中情局人员在审讯中采用了严厉苛刻的手段。Justin Webb 华盛顿报道。

在给中情局所有工作人员的一封信中，中情局局长Michael Hayden说这两盒录影带带来了严重的安全隐患，万一泄露，将会暴露你们的中情局同事的身份，使他们及他们的家人面临基地组织及其同情者的报复。一些民权组织和资深的政治家则对中情局销毁录影带所做的解释表示不能接受，他们指出过去一些组织，比如911委员会曾向中情局索要过有关审讯的录影带，但中情局却否认这些录影带的存在。