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US court rules out investigating CIA tapes: Report
Jan 10, 2008, 12:16 GMT
Washington - A US judge on Wednesday ruled out a court review of the CIA's destruction of tapes that showed the interrogation of two suspected terrorists, the Washington Post reported.
US District Judge Henry Kennedy said the US Justice Department - which last week announced it was launching its own criminal probe into the matter - should be allowed to complete its own investigation.
A group of Yemeni inmates held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had asked for an inquiry into whether the CIA had violated court orders destroy evidence. But Kennedy, a federal judge in Washington, said the group 'offer nothing to support their assertion that a judicial inquiry is necessary,' the Post reported.
The two tapes, made in 2002 and destroyed in 2005, documented interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, an associate of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and another high-level, unidentified member of the terrorist group. CIA Director Michael Hayden in early December disclosed the one-time existence and destruction of the tapes.
Hayden said the tapes were made to ensure agents were following interrogation guidelines, but their destruction has prompted criticism that the agency was trying to cover up the use of harsh interrogation methods or possible torture.
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This is Rogèr:
Whether one destroys human beings physically, or, like in the American gulags, one destroys human beings mentally makes no difference.
Most of the Guantanamo inmates where picked up by chance and 'sold' to the Americans by Afghan warlords, the price tag being $50K/person.
Bush, the mentally deranged president of a genuinely sick nation, needed to cool his temper by knowing that some of the 'vermin' was taken revenge on, thus Guantanamo happened to America.
There's one certainty on the horizon:
the US will be cut off from the civilized world, trade will taper off as the US has little left to offer, the propping up of the US currency will wane as soon as the Euro will take over as the world's reserve currency (who wants to keep a currency that is printed like mad and put into the world as fast as sour-turning beer?), and the world will stand by as the US will suffer through its very well-deserved depression.
Talk to us ten years from now, we may consider lending you a helping hand ...
... after you got rid of fascism and reigned in your out-of-control military shit-house.
Having a European tutor us in genocide is a real honor! After all, you're never too old to learn from the master! I mean, if the 20th century defined anything it was the utter efficiency of your predecessors methods. Compared to that, we're just rank amateurs!
When you're done swearing at me, I'll be happy to take you on a tour of how your brethren treat THEIR prisoners!
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SP4: Golly!Jan 10th, 2008 - 16:47:06
Wasn't this exactly what I said on the last article about this non-event i.e. why would a judge have to be involved if the prosecutor was investigating?
Who was the little prick who said I did not know what I was talking about? Where is he now?
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