Or, as emptywheel says, the same place Judy Miller stored her Scooter/Plame notes--under her desk. In 2007, a CIA staffer found a handful of tapes that escaped the shredder, or whatever means the CIA used to destroy damning evidence of them torturing detainees. The existing tapes, the AP reports are of 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret Morrocan prison.
The two videotapes and one audiotape are believed to be the only remaining recordings made within the clandestine prison system.
The tapes depict Binalshibh's interrogation sessions at a Moroccan-run facility the CIA used near Rabat in 2002, several current and former U.S. officials told The Associated Press. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the recordings remain a closely guarded secret.
When the CIA destroyed its cache of 92 videos of two other al-Qaida operatives, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Nashiri, being waterboarded in 2005, officials believed they had wiped away all of the agency's interrogation footage. But in 2007, a staffer discovered a box tucked under a desk in the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and pulled out the Binalshibh tapes.
A Justice Department prosecutor who is already investigating whether destroying the Zubaydah and al-Nashiri tapes was illegal is now also probing why the Binalshibh tapes were never disclosed. Twice, the government told a federal judge they did not exist.
Marcy has been following the interrogation tapes particulary closely and has a great deal more, including the possibility that these tapes could shed light on the torture of Binyam Mohamed, who claims that the worst of the torture occured at this same secret prison. Mohamed and al-Shibh were there at the same time, and as Marcy notes, "What are the chances that the Moroccans acting as our proxy treated al-Shibh much differently than they treated Mohamed?" She concludes:
These tapes may well undo at least three of the lies the government told to cover up its torture and its counterterrorism mistakes. If John Durham–-who the AP notes has expanded his investigation to include possible obstruction tied to these tapes–-does anything with the tapes.