Then-CIA Director Michael Hayden preempted The New York Times' planned report on the interrogation tapes by sending CIA employees a letter describing the tapes and stating they had been destroyed 'in the absence of any legal or internal reason to keep them.'
Sources
- The Senate Torture Report and Investigative Journalism (cfr.org)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/06/AR2007120601689_pf.html (washingtonpost.com)
- https://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/12/06/cia.videotapes/ (edition.cnn.com)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna22139312 (nbcnews.com)
- https://www.npr.org/2007/12/07/17021550/timeline-cia-and-interrogation-videotapes (npr.org)
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