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Associated PressNEW YORK - The CIA was not required to preserve videotapes of terrorist interrogations for a lawsuit brought against it over the treatment of detainees, the government said in court papers released Friday.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the lawsuit in 2004, had asked a judge last month to find the CIA in contempt for destroying the videotapes.
Government lawyers said the CIA was not required to divulge any information from its operational records.
"The CIA therefore had no duty to preserve the videotapes due to the initiation of this lawsuit," the government said in written arguments submitted in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
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