Angry Dems in Congress are calling on interrogation enthusiast/Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate the CIA's 2005 destruction of videotapes of al-Qaeda operatives' grillings at Guantanamo.

The tapes were allegedly destroyed, during the height of scrutiny about the CIA's secret detention program, partly because officers feared that footage of harsh interrogation methods might pose legal risks to agency officials. But CIA director Michael Hayden, who took over the agency's leadership after Porter Goss resigned in 2006, told employees yesterday that the tapes were destroyed to protect the safety of undercover officers, and because they no longer had intelligence value. But what was he really thinking?