On Nov. 2, 2005, the Washington Post detailed the CIA's secret prison program known as "black sites." It was November 2005 that the CIA destroyed the tapes.
Hayden said the tapes were destroyed because "they were no longer of intelligence value" and that they posed "a serious security risk" because if leaked, they'd reveal the identity of covert CIA agents.
Kennedy objected to that explanation: "That excuse won't wash ... How is it possible that the director of the CIA has so little faith in his own agency?"
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