| Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:54:08 |
| The Bush administration has told a federal judge not to watch the CIA interrogation tapes and not to follow up the tapes' destruction issue. In court documents the government lawyers told the US District Judge Henry H. Kennedy that asking for information about the much disputed tapes would interfere with the present investigations by the Congress and the Justice Department. This is the first time the government has discussed the issue of the videotapes in court. Kennedy ordered the Bush administration in June 2005 to safeguard 'all evidence and information regarding the torture, mistreatment, and abuse of detainees at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay.' Five months later the CIA destroyed the interrogation tapes. Government lawyers told Kennedy the tapes were not covered by his court order because the interrogations of the suspected terrorists, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, were not at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. The men were interrogated in secret CIA prisons overseas. They were later transferred to Guantanamo Bay and the tapes were destroyed. Attorney General Michael Mukasey declined to give any details to the congress about the government's investigation into the matter saying it would raise questions about whether the request was because of political pressure. NA/RA |
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