CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents

[babsbunny]

http://www.truthout.org/051309A

Wednesday 13 May 2009

by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report

The CIA claims the integrity of a special prosecutor's criminal investigation into the destruction of 92 interrogation videotapes will be compromised if the agency is forced to turn over detailed documents to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) describing the contents of the tapes, according to newly released court documents.

In a May 5 letter to US District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein, Lev Dassin, the acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the Justice Department recently had discussions with prosecutors working on the criminal investigation into the destruction of the interrogation tapes and was informed that "the production of documents ... would conflict and substantially interfere with the investigation" into the destruction of the interrogation tapes.

[derby378]

1. To quote Steve Earle, "Fuck the CIA"

Does the CIA work for Obama, or the other way around?

[lsewpershad]

2. indeed