Agorism
05-04-2011, 10:14 PM
What good is the Freedom of Information Act when the CIA can just destroy the video tape instead of handing it over after ordered by a judge?
http://en.rsf.org/united-states-in-new-blow-to-foia-supreme-court-05-10-2010,38495.html
Decision not file charges in CIA video destruction deals new setback to right to information
Federal prosecutor John Durham’s decision on 9 November not to file charges against any of the CIA officers who destroyed 92 videos of interrogations in secret CIA prisons has dealt a new blow to the search for truth in a matter of public interest and to the public’s right of access to official information.
This is decision is all the more incomprehensible as the CIA itself acknowledged in March 2009 that it destroyed the 92 videos. How can the prosecutor argue that there are no grounds for pressing charges?
It is also absurd that the investigation into the destruction of the videos has been closed while the investigation into the torture of detainees in secret prisons is supposed to continue. The latter investigation is liable to suffer as a result of the decision to abandon the former, which could at least have yielded evidence about the content of the destroyed recordings
http://en.rsf.org/united-states-in-new-blow-to-foia-supreme-court-05-10-2010,38495.html
Decision not file charges in CIA video destruction deals new setback to right to information
Federal prosecutor John Durham’s decision on 9 November not to file charges against any of the CIA officers who destroyed 92 videos of interrogations in secret CIA prisons has dealt a new blow to the search for truth in a matter of public interest and to the public’s right of access to official information.
This is decision is all the more incomprehensible as the CIA itself acknowledged in March 2009 that it destroyed the 92 videos. How can the prosecutor argue that there are no grounds for pressing charges?
It is also absurd that the investigation into the destruction of the videos has been closed while the investigation into the torture of detainees in secret prisons is supposed to continue. The latter investigation is liable to suffer as a result of the decision to abandon the former, which could at least have yielded evidence about the content of the destroyed recordings