CIA spokesman says agency cooperated with 9/11 panel

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Associated Press - December 22, 2007 2:23 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) - The CIA is responding to suggestions that it hid interrogation videotapes from the 9/11 commission.

An agency spokesman says the CIA cooperated with the panel, and that the agency's assistance was what allowed the panel to reconstruct the 9/11 plot for its report.

A recent memo from a former official on the panel suggests the CIA was less than forthcoming when asked for documents and other information in the 9/11 investigation.

The spokesman says the taped interrogations of terror suspects weren't destroyed while the commission was still active because it was thought that the commission could ask about them at some point.

He says the CIA didn't destroy the tapes until the panel wrapped up its probe into the terror attack.