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NYT: DO lawyers cleared destroying the tapes?
As for guidance from the then CIA general counsel, top management and the White House during two years of discussions on the matter, no apparent firm written order was made to preserve the tapes, while no one wanted their fingerprints on the decision to destroy them. As a friend says, "We advise against it, but we sure wouldn't mind if those tapes disappeared. But we advise against it, like we said."