Torture is illegal. Destroying records on torture with the permission of supervisors is not as there is no international requirement to preserve evidence of war crimes.
>Destroying records on torture with the permission of supervisors is not as there is no international requirement to preserve evidence of war crimes.
The act could be considered obstruction of justice making it a federal crime.
There could be some hidden complex series of pained logic to justify destruction of evidence, so I am hesitant to judge on the matter.