Judge suspects CIA duped court in destroying tapes
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A U.S. judge deciding if the CIA should be held in contempt for destroying video tapes of interrogations of suspected Islamist militants said on Thursday he believed the court had been deceived by the agency.
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Former members and staffers of the 9/11 Commission have concluded that the CIA withheld videotapes of harsh interrogation sessions even after specific and "very detailed" requests about the two prisoners whose tapes were later destroyed, according to a review of classified material by the panel.
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Prosecutors can show most of a videotaped 1997 interview with Osama bin Laden to jurors in the terrorism trial of former "dirty bomber" suspect Jose Padilla even though there is no evidence Padilla ever saw it, a judge ruled on Thursday.
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A federal judge presiding over the perjury trial of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff expressed doubt this morning about defense arguments that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was scapegoated by the White House in 2003 as the furor grew over the leak of a CIA officer's identity to the media.
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In late 2005, the retiring CIA station chief in Bangkok sent a classified cable to his superiors in Langley asking if he could destroy videotapes recorded at a secret CIA prison in Thailand that in part portrayed intelligence officers using simulated drowning to extract information from suspected...
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The US justice department is to launch a criminal inquiry into the CIA's wiping of interrogation tapes.
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The Bush Administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that revealed some of its harshest tactics
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The House Intelligence Committee has summoned the CIA official who ordered the destruction of interrogation videotapes, launching what will likely be several months of hearings.
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Witnesses in the trial of a US soldier charged with abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib have told the court that the CIA sometimes directed abuse and orders were received from military command to toughen interrogations.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey has ordered federal prosecutors to investigate the destruction of CIA videotapes showing agents interrogating terrorism suspects. The tapes reportedly showed rough interrogation techniques of two alleged al Qaeda members, including the use of "waterboarding."
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A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorism and espionage cases criticized yesterday President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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A Milan judge on Friday ordered 26 Americans, most of them believed to be CIA agents, to stand trial on charges of kidnapping a terrorism suspect in 2003 and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.
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Lawyers representing military detainees at Guantanamo Bay have expressed concern that the government has violated a federal court order by losing or erasing several years' worth of digital video recordings that could shed light on the legality of detainee treatment.
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The CIA comes under renewed pressure over why it erased tapes showing interrogations of terror suspects.
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WASHINGTON -- A federal judge held a reporter in contempt yesterday for refusing to divulge confidential sources to prosecutors investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer&#39;s identity.
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The government made a secret video of its interrogations of 'enemy combatant' Jose Padilla. But now that he's on trial, the Feds claim they don't know where it went.
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The administration must answer questions about the destruction of CIA interrogation videos of two al-Qaida suspects, a federal judge said Tuesday, rejecting the government's efforts to keep the courts out of the investigation.