Moussaoui prosecutor knew of CIA tapes

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Posted on Wed, Feb. 06, 2008

Moussaoui prosecutor knew of CIA tapes
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON -- The lead prosecutor in the terror case against
Zacarias Moussaoui likely knew the CIA destroyed tapes of its
interrogations of al-Qaida suspects more than a year before the
government admitted it to the court, newly unsealed documents
show.

The documents, which were declassified and released Wednesday by
the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, detail efforts by Moussaoui's
attorneys to send the case back to a lower federal court to find
out why the tapes weren't disclosed and whether they would have
influenced his decision to plead guilty.

In a Dec. 18, 2007, letter to the appeals court's chief judge, the
Justice Department acknowledged that its lead prosecutor in the case
had been informed about the CIA's tapes of al-Qaida lieutenant Abu
Zubaydah being interrogated.

The letter said the prosecutor, Robert A. Spencer, may have been
told of the tapes' destruction in late February or early March of
2006, just as the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., was
beginning its trial on whether Moussaoui would be eligible for the
death penalty.

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[Solly Mack]

1. sick sick nation

[badgervan]

2. Oh, Yeah

But remember that what goes around... comes around. There has to be evidence somewhere on this gang's illegal and anti-Constitutional actions over the past seven plus years. Some of these people must have consciences, and I expect more than one or two to step forward and come clean in the not too distant future.

[cstanleytech]

4. No, sick sick leadership being Bush and the republicans.

So much for them being the constitutional party, what a bunch of hypocrits.

[bleever]

3. So much evidence of criminality, and

it will continue to spill out, over time, just by the force of gravity.

[gratuitous]

5. We can't follow the rules of discovery!

Otherwise the terrorists would win! So we have to destroy the forms and procedures of our government in order to preserve them.

Hard to argue with what passes for Republican logic.

[The Stranger]

6. Disbar him immediately.

[Supersedeas]

7. Candor to the Tribunal -- something Mukasey can turn a blind eye to, now that he works for Bush

[bluesmail]

8. recommend