CIA Destroyed Tapes As Judge Sought Interrogation Data
The New York Times reports this morning that according to recently declassified documents, the federal judge overseeing the case of Abu Zubayday was s...
The New York Times reports this morning that according to recently declassified documents, the federal judge overseeing the case of Abu Zubayday was s...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Thursday that CIA interrogation videotapes may have been relevant to his court case, and he gave the Bush admi...
TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
There are good days in court, and there are bad days in court. From The New York Times: "I'm asked to believe that actual motion pictures, videotapes...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director Porter Goss never criticized plans to destroy interrogation videotapes, a lawyer said Thursday as the investiga...
Politico | Daniel Reilly | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
Attorney General Michael Mukasey will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the end of the month, his first appearance before the committee...
ABC News | John Cochran | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics
In a closed door hearing scheduled for Wednesday, Congress plans to ask why the CIA destroyed tapes showing interrogations of suspected al-Qaeda opera...
Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics
A federal judge refused on Wednesday to delve into the destruction of CIA interrogation videos, saying there was no evidence the Bush administration v...
Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics
Attorneys for Jose Rodriguez told Congress the former CIA official won't testify about the destruction of CIA videotapes without a promise of immunity...
Newsweek | Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics
Attorney general Michael Mukasey's decision to launch a full-scale FBI probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes has sent several alarmed ...
NY Times | Ariel Alexovich | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department's criminal inquiry into the destruction of the Central Intelligence Agency interrogation tapes will be carried out largely by a...
NY Times | THOMAS H. KEAN, LEE H. HAMILTON | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
More than five years ago, Congress and President Bush created the 9/11 commission. The goal was to provide the American people with the fullest possib...
Think Progress | Posted 12.24.2007 | Politics
In its attempts to uncover all materials related to the 9/11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission specifically requested material about the interrogations of ...
New York Times | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 12.22.2007 | Politics
A review of classified documents by former members of the Sept. 11 commission shows that the panel made repeated and detailed requests to the Central ...
AFP | Roland Lloyd Parry | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics
US government lawyers flatly denied Friday that videotapes destroyed by the CIA contained any scenes of the torture of terror suspects in Guantanamo B...
TPMmuckraker | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics
"It smells like the coverup of the coverup." That's Rep. Jane Harman's (D-CA) take. And Rep. Pete Hoekstra's (R-MI) wasn't any different. In case yo...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that re...
ABC News | Martha Raddatz | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
ABC News' Martha Raddatz Reports: In an exclusive interview with ABC News President Bush said Tuesday he did not know about the destruction of CIA vid...
CBS News | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
As Congress seeks answers about why the CIA destroyed tapes of terror suspects under interrogation, White House lawyers have advised President Bush's ...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
It's shocking that any American lawmaker -- of either party -- would go along with state-sanctioned torture. But it's not shocking when you realize it's just part of a long line of Democratic "acquiescence."
The Independent | Robert Verkaik | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
Lawyers for a British resident who the US government refuses to release from Guantanamo Bay have identified the existence of photographs taken by CIA ...
Huff Radio | Posted 12.08.2007 | Politics
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New York Times | Mark Mazzetti | Posted 12.08.2007 | Politics
White House and Justice Department officials, along with senior members of Congress, advised the Central Intelligence Agency in 2003 against a plan to...
Gerald Posner | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
Why does Bush, and the CIA, continue to protect the Saudi Royal family and the Pakistani military, from the implications of Abu Zubaydah's confessions?
AP | Pamela Hess | Posted 12.07.2007 | Home
The Senate's No. 2 Democrat on Friday asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the CIA obstructed justice by destroying videotapes that doc...
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Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics