The House intelligence committee plans to call George Tenet and Porter Goss, former Central Intelligence Agency chiefs, to ­testify over the scandal surrounding the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogations of two al-Qaeda members.

Mr Tenet was the CIA director in 2002 when the spy agency recorded the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, an alleged 9/11 planner, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole in Aden.