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Rebuffing a Bush Administration suggestion that the courts stay out of the controversy over the destroyed Central Intelligence Agency videotapes, a U.S. District judge in Washington on Tuesday ordered a hearing for Friday morning on whether the Agency violated a court order. Tapes destroyed in November 2005 recorded aggressive interrogation techniques of terrorist suspects
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees have argued that the destroyed tapes may have evidence that would bear on the legality of the government’s handling of information that may be used to keep detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., acting on the plea of lawyers for the Yemeni nationals who are detained, set a hearing for 11 a.m. Friday. (The order can be downloaded here.)
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