The WaPo reported last year that no one will be charged with destroying the CIA videotapes of detainee interrogations:
No charges in destruction of CIA videotapes, Justice Department says
By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 9, 2010; 3:11 PM
After an exhaustive probe that lasted nearly three years, federal prosecutor John Durham concluded that he would not bring a criminal case against the CIA officers. The burning of the 92 tapes on Nov. 9, 2005, was authorized in a cable sent by Jose Rodriguez Jr., head of the agency's directorate of operations.
The tapes showed the interrogations of two high-profile detainees. Sources have said they depicted waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning that human rights groups and Obama administration officials say is torture.
The tapes cover the interrogations of Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein, an alleged facilitator of terrorism better known as Abu Zubaida, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi suspected of involvement in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole as it docked for refueling in a Yemeni port
The same article does state that other investigations are still ongoing:
...other parts of the probe remained open. Sources familiar with Durham's investigation said authorities have not ruled out filing charges against officials who may have misled investigators during the probe into the tapes' destruction.
Durham is also conducting a related, and potentially more explosive, investigation into whether CIA employees and contractors broke the law in conducting interrogations at "black site" prisons. Sources said that probe remains active.
In August 2009, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. expanded Durham's mandate to include the actions of CIA interrogators and contractors. Sources have said that probe is focused on a few cases of alleged detainee abuse, including at least one in which an Afghan prisoner died at a secret CIA facility after being beaten and chained to a concrete floor.
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