The CIA's former top clandestine officer and others won't be charged in the destruction of CIA videotapes of interrogations of suspected terrorists, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Another part of the criminal investigation is continuing into whether CIA interrogators went beyond the legal guidance given them on treatment of the suspects during questioning, a Justice Department official said. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because that part of the probe is still under way.
The CIA destroyed its cache of 92 videos of two al Qaeda operatives, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Nashiri, being waterboarded in 2005.
Jose Rodriguez, formerly the agency's top clandestine officer, worried the 92 tapes would be devastating to the CIA if they ever surfaced. He approved the destruction of the tapes. Mr. Rodriguez's order was at odds with years of directives from CIA lawyers and the White House.
A lawyer for Mr. Rodriguez, Robert Bennett, said the Justice Department decision "is the right decision because of the facts and the law." Mr. Bennett called Mr. Rodriguez "an American hero, a true patriot who only wanted to protect his people and his country."
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