ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has launched a lawsuit against the CIA “to seek details of the interrogations of terror suspects,” as it was revealed that some 92 tapes that recorded interviews conducted with terror suspects were destroyed.

The group is seeking more details of the interrogation programs following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, and to follow up on a ruling a judge ordered in 2005 for the preservation of all evidence regarding the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

ACLU attorney Amrit Singh said that “The large number of videotapes destroyed confirms that the agency engaged in a systematic attempt to hide evidence of its illegal interrogations and to evade the court’s order,” and that the CIA should be held in contempt.

The CIA has claimed thus far that the tapes were destroyed because they no longer contained significant information and that the ruling made in 2005 “did not apply to the destroyed tapes, as they concerned interrogations that took place before the suspects had been transferred to Guantanamo.”

Techniques used in these interrogations are understood to have included water-boarding, which the Bush administration didn’t consider to be a form of torture.  Other methods used are “Cold Cell”, where prisoners are forced to stand in a cold cell and splashed water on sometimes for more than 40 hours.  The Obama administration considers such methods as torture.