White House Finally Issues Preservation Order, Days After Destruction Of Torture Tapes Revealed

[maddezmom]

White House Finally Issues Preservation Order, Days After Destruction Of Torture Tapes Revealed
After the media revealed last Thursday evening that the CIA had destroyed at least two torture tapes, both the White House and the Department of Justice delayed in sending out a preservation order ensuring that federal government employees did not undertake any further acts of destroying evidence.

Lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights representing Guantanamo Bay detainee Majid Khan warned in a Nov. 29 filing that, “absent a preservation order, there is substantial risk that the torture evidence will disappear.”

On Friday’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Georgetown Law professor Neal Katyal — who successfully argued the Hamdan decision in front of the Supreme Court — expressed concern that further documents might be destroyed because the administration was delaying the issuance of a preservation order:

more:http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/10/wh-prservation-order-tapes/

[fenriswolf]

1. so is anyone gonna do anything about the fact

that evidence was destroyed with no good reason other then it would be proof that this administration laid another bold faced lie on the american people?

[maddezmom]

2. probably not, atleasrt KO is talking about just this thing right now

with Turley