A federal judge has ordered Tuesday a hearing in order to find out whether the Bush administration breached the court order and destroyed the CIA interrogation videos of two al-Qaida suspects.

U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, who ordered in 2005 the administration to preserve "all evidence and information regarding the torture, mistreatment, and abuse of detainees now at the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay."

Kennedy rejected the calls coming from the Justice Department, who urged him to stay out of it, and ordered lawyers to appear before him on Friday.

Five month after the order was given the CIA staff destroyed the recording from the interrogation. The tapings recordings included alleged terrorists Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.

The Justice Department excused its deed by saying that the videos weren't covered by the order because the two men were being held in secret CIA prisons overseas, not at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

David Remes, who represents the Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay, was the one which asked for the hearing. He stated that the government was obliged to safeguard the recordings and he wants to be sure other evidence is not being destroyed.

"We want more than just the government's assurances. The government has given these assurances in the past and they've proven unreliable," Remes said.

"The recent revelation of the CIA tape destruction indicates that the government cannot be trusted to preserve evidence," he added.

The CIA has declared that the tapes were destroyed lawfully and the agency did it out of concern for the safety of agents involved if the recordings were ever made public.
The White House has constantly denied the U.S. tortures those suspected of terrorism.