"Lawyers Cleared Destroying Tapes"
"C.I.A. officials had continued to press the White House for a firm decision, and that the C.I.A. was never given a direct order not to destroy the... hundreds of hours of videotapes.
“They never told us, ‘Hell, no.’ “If somebody had said, ‘You cannot destroy them,’ we would not have destroyed them.” -- a former senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the episode."
HUNDREDS of HOURS of it!!!!!