(On this trip, Godwin wanders into a farmhouse used as a torture center by Mugabe's hit teams and riffles through a notebook that documents interrogations and names people "who are to be beaten").
General Myers and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have said that the information collected in recent weeks from computer hard drives, portable phones, documents, interrogations and other intelligence prizes has thwarted other terrorist operations.
The officials said the nearly 50 tapes they identified documented interrogations of two terrorism suspects, Jose Padilla and Ali al-Marri, and were made at a Navy detention site in Charleston, S.C., where the two men have been held.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 — Lawyers within the clandestine branch of the Central Intelligence Agency gave written approval in advance to the destruction in 2005 of hundreds of hours of videotapes documenting interrogations of two lieutenants from Al Qaeda, according to a former senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the episode.
The contents page, which documented interrogation tactics used at the CIA's secret offshore prisons known as "black sites", was published in a 2009 NYRB article by Mark Danner, US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites.
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, Gina Haspel, a veteran CIA officer who reportedly oversaw a secret prison in Thailand where an alleged terrorist was waterboarded and later helped destroy videotapes documenting interrogation sessions, will make the case to a Senate committee that she should be confirmed to be the director of the spy agency.
Trial documents and interrogations of AQIM extremists in west Africa have revealed the difficulties groups have sometimes had in finding suitable targets and arranging logistics.
They also documented the interrogations on a mobile phone camera.
The destruction of dozens of C.I.A. interrogation tapes, documenting the interrogations of Qaeda operatives Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in a secret C.I.A. detention facility in Thailand, was one of the most controversial episodes of the past decade.
Asked about the upcoming release of a report that documents American interrogation techniques, Mr. Obama said the C.I.A. exercised "very poor judgment" in its handling of the report.
The review was conducted earlier this month after the disclosure that in November 2005, the C.I.A. destroyed videotapes documenting the interrogations of two Qaeda operatives.
