On Capitol Hill, CIA Director Michael Hayden appeared in closed session before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday to answer questions on the destruction of hundreds of hours of videotapes documenting interrogations at secret CIA prisons. After the hearing, Hayden distanced himself from the tape controversy, saying, “There are other people at the agency who know about this far better than I.” Hayden became CIA director in May 2006, six months after the tapes were reportedly destroyed. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court in Washington has ordered the government not to destroy any evidence of torture of prisoners at Guantanamo. Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay prisoner Majid Khan had filed the request, claiming they believe that evidence of his torture still exists.