At the New York Times, Mark Mazzetti reports on the promotion of a C.I.A. officer "directly involved in the 2005 decision to destroy interrogation videotapes and who once ran one of the agency’s secret prisons."
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Mar 28, 2013
Officer linked to torture tapes' destruction advances within C.I.A.
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