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DOJ refusal to prosecute CIA tape destruction undermines rule of law

By Edward SanFilippo

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Bill Quigley [Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights]: "The Department of Justice decision to refuse to prosecute anyone for the intentional destruction of evidence of over 90 tapes documenting crimes of torture is an outrageous betrayal of respect for human rights and the rule of law. The DOJ continues to try to construct a cocoon of impunity for all the government officials and private contractors involved in torture - a clear crime under both US and international law. Remember that in February the DOJ said there would be no legal or disciplinary consequences for John Yoo and the other torture-authorizing lawyers. Now ex-president Bush admits in his memoir that he

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on November 18, 2010 (boomark / email).

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