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Harry Hope
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From The Associated Press, 12/12/07:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071212...apes_courts;_ylt=Ai3pn4zYYVTRFCEFgxL8nBOs0NUE
CIA destroyed tapes despite court orders
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON -
The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence
of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed
videotapes that revealed some of its harshest interrogation tactics.
Normally, that would force the government to defend itself against
obstruction allegations.
But the CIA may have an out: its clandestine network of overseas
prisons.
While judges focused on the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
and tried to guarantee that any evidence of detainee abuse would be
preserved, the CIA was performing its toughest questioning half a
world away.
And by the time President Bush publicly acknowledged the secret prison
system, interrogation videotapes of two terrorism suspects had been
destroyed.
The CIA destroyed the tapes in November 2005.
That June, U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. had ordered the
Bush administration to safeguard "all evidence and information
regarding the torture, mistreatment, and abuse of detainees now at the
United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay."
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler issued a nearly identical order
that July.
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Further evidence that this Republican administration in a criminal
organization.
Harry
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071212...apes_courts;_ylt=Ai3pn4zYYVTRFCEFgxL8nBOs0NUE
CIA destroyed tapes despite court orders
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON -
The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence
of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed
videotapes that revealed some of its harshest interrogation tactics.
Normally, that would force the government to defend itself against
obstruction allegations.
But the CIA may have an out: its clandestine network of overseas
prisons.
While judges focused on the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
and tried to guarantee that any evidence of detainee abuse would be
preserved, the CIA was performing its toughest questioning half a
world away.
And by the time President Bush publicly acknowledged the secret prison
system, interrogation videotapes of two terrorism suspects had been
destroyed.
The CIA destroyed the tapes in November 2005.
That June, U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. had ordered the
Bush administration to safeguard "all evidence and information
regarding the torture, mistreatment, and abuse of detainees now at the
United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay."
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler issued a nearly identical order
that July.
_________________________________________________
Further evidence that this Republican administration in a criminal
organization.
Harry
