CIA: Tapes not relevant to civil case

[ursi]

Source: Associated Press

NEW YORK - The CIA was not required to preserve videotapes of terrorist interrogations for a lawsuit brought against it over the treatment of detainees, the government said in court papers released Friday.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the lawsuit in 2004, had asked a judge last month to find the CIA in contempt for destroying the videotapes.

Government lawyers said the CIA was not required to divulge any information from its operational records.

"The CIA therefore had no duty to preserve the videotapes due to the initiation of this lawsuit," the government said in written arguments submitted in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.



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[Demeter]

1. The CIA Recognizes NO Duties, Period

They are totally outside the law, de facto. And everybody except the victims likes it that way.

[havocmom]

2. When do defendents get to decide on what evidence is admitted?

:wtf:

It's not your father's America.