Gina Haspel is the new appointee to become CIA Director. She believed that tapes of the interrogation of prisoners in the aftermath of 9/11 were like 'business meetings' and they didn't need to be retained.
https://thinkprogress.org/cia-tried-to-argue-torture-sessions-are-meetings-to-destroy-videotapes-3acc130ae036/
"Remarkably, the CIA argued that it did not need to preserve videotapes of its "enhanced interrogations" — torture sessions with suspects that involved methods like wall slams, confinement boxes, and waterboarding — because they were like formal government meetings, and therefore less stringent guidelines applied when it came to preserving records of such a "meeting.""
https://thinkprogress.org/cia-tried-to-argue-torture-sessions-are-meetings-to-destroy-videotapes-3acc130ae036/
"Remarkably, the CIA argued that it did not need to preserve videotapes of its "enhanced interrogations" — torture sessions with suspects that involved methods like wall slams, confinement boxes, and waterboarding — because they were like formal government meetings, and therefore less stringent guidelines applied when it came to preserving records of such a "meeting.""
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