Thomas Kean, a Republican, and Lee Hamilton, a Democrat, have published an op-ed in today’s New York Times suggesting that the CIA willfully withheld the existence of interrogation videotapes from the bi-partisan committee. The two chairs of the 9/11 committee had repeatedly asked the administration and the CIA for access to documents and interrogation information pertaining to high-value detainees.
This follows on the heels of Judge Henry Kennedy’s inquiry into the destruction of tapes which followed his explicit orders to preserve all documentation of interrogations at Guantanamo Bay (at that time, it was not publicly known that the U.S. was conducting interrogations in secret prisons.)
