WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A senior U.S. lawmaker said she urged CIA officials in 2003 not to destroy videotapes of harsh interrogations.
U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., released a letter that she wrote to the CIA in February 2003 that contains a quote from CIA General Counsel Scott Muller, who said a recording of the intelligence agency's interrogation of Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein, better known as Abu Zubaida, "will be destroyed after the Inspector General finishes his inquiry."