The Justice Department and the Central Intelligence Agency’s internal watchdog began a joint effort on Saturday to determine whether a full inquiry into the destruction of hundreds of hours of videotaped interrogations of top al-Qaeda operatives is needed. White House and Justice Department officials, along with senior members of Congress, advised the CIA in 2003 against destroying tapes of interrogations of two al-Qaeda operatives, government officials said Friday. (New York Times)
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