Updated: Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced today that the Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes.
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A federal judge has for the time being declined to order a hearing during which the government would have to explain the destruction of CIA videotapes that show harsh interrogation…
The Washington Post reports that a fifth lawyer, former CIA general counsel Scott Muller, argued against destroying two videotapes of the interrogation of al-Qaida suspects.
The CIA has requested an investigation of the former CIA officer who told journalists last week that a destroyed videotape showed an al-Qaida suspect being subjected to waterboarding.
A Paris court has convicted five former Guantanamo detainees for criminal association with a terrorist enterprise and sentenced each of them to one year in prison.
White House officials were more involved in discussions about the destruction of videotaped interrogations of al-Qaida suspects than previously reported.
At least four White House lawyers were part of the…
A federal judge has scheduled a hearing (PDF) Friday to consider whether the CIA violated a court order barring the destruction of evidence by destroying two…
The chief judge of military commissions at Guantanamo Bay apparently had a different view of the system when he was a master’s degree candidate at the Naval War College.
The top legal adviser who oversees Guantanamo prosecutors told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee yesterday that evidence obtained by waterboarding could be used at detainees’ trials if judges agree it is…
A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspect allegedly tortured in Morocco when his interrogation was outsourced by the U.S. says the CIA was present and has photographs of the…
One of the two al-Qaida suspects whose interrogation was chronicled on a destroyed videotape was subjected to waterboarding, according to a former CIA officer.
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