Oh, this must be just the worst Christmas present for the White House.
Judge Orders Hearing on Destruction of CIA Torture Tapes
And the judicial branch enters the fray. Much to the administration’s chagrin, Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. has ordered a hearing on the CIA’s destruction of the torture tapes for this Friday at 11 AM. Back in 2005, Kennedy, a Clinton appointee, had ordered the [...]
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David Rothstein // December 19, 2007 at 9:09 am |
The WH lawyers were hemming and hawing over the fate of the tapes while having plenty of opportunity to stop their destruction. Of course fingers are pointed every which way but theirs as to who made the final call to destroy them: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/19/america/19intel.php