There’s a lot of hand wringing on the blogs about who gave the CIA authority to destroy the videotapes of an “interrogation.”
One important point: By law, the only person who can authorize a federal government agency to destroy a “record” is the Archivist of the United States. (36 CFR Part 1228)
Now, this may have been done for the CIA under some general or ongoing authority, but that seems unlikely.
Furthermore, based on my experience, I find it difficult to believe the CIA destroyed anything.
Even if they did destroy the “tapes” so what. That’s a smoke screen. Everything gets duplicated and everything is more easily stored in the digital age. Hell, Cheney probably has copies mixed in with his porn collection.