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"Tapes' Destruction Hovers Over Detainee Cases"

"Tapes' Destruction Hovers Over Detainee Cases": Today's edition of The New York Times contains a front page article that begins, "When officers from the Central Intelligence Agency destroyed hundreds of hours of videotapes documenting harsh interrogations in 2005, they may have believed they were freeing the government and themselves from potentially serious legal trouble. But nearly four months after the disclosure that the tapes were destroyed, the list of legal entanglements for the C.I.A., the Defense Department and other agencies is only growing longer. In addition to criminal and Congressional investigations of the tapes' destruction, the government is fighting off challenges in several major terrorism cases and a raft of prisoners' legal claims that it may have destroyed evidence."

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).