Thinkprogress:
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:
I am a little dismayed that [Attorney General Michael Mukasey] hasn’t done what I believe Attorney General Ed Meese did right when the Iran contra scandal broke, which was issue a preservation order — ordering all federal government employees to make sure no further documents were destroyed. Because who knows what’s being shredded right now as we speak.
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Find Porter Goss he knows the answers as he was in charge or at lease sitting in the chair. Let's see if his soul mate will help him out of this one while their in Canada. When you said he didn't know who to use a computer I knew the Bush Administration had picked the right idiot. Now we know he didn't know how to run the CIA officer either. Employees had full run of the office as Dick gave the orders and Porter just had phone sex with his male soul mate.
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