Federal judge won’t inquire into CIA tapes case

[Gunny]

Associated Press
updated 2 hours, 48 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A federal judge refused on Wednesday to delve into the destruction of CIA interrogation videos, saying there was no evidence the Bush administration violated a court order and the Justice Department deserved time to conduct its own investigation.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy was a victory for the Bush administration, which had urged the courts not to wade into a politically-charged issue already being investigated by the Justice Department, CIA and Congress.

The CIA has acknowledged that in 2005 it destroyed videos of officers using tough interrogation methods while questioning two al-Qaida suspects.

Lawyers for other terrorism suspects quickly asked Kennedy to hold hearings, saying the executive branch had proved itself unreliable and could not be trusted to investigate its own potential wrongdoing.

Kennedy, a former prosecutor who was appointed to the bench by President Clinton, disagreed.

He said attorneys hadn't "presented anything to cause this court to question whether the Department of Justice will follow the facts wherever they may lead and live up to the assurances it made to this court."

more ... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22577522/

I wonder when people are going to figure out "Bush did it" isn't evidence.

 

[jillian]

I wonder when people are going to figure out "Bush did it" isn't evidence.

I wonder when people are going to figure out that every investigation is stopped before it gets going.

Maybe we should get Ken Starr