Did CIA Destroy Tapes Showing Waterboarding and Involvement of Psychologists in Torture?

Democracy Now by Scott Horton, Mark Benjamin, AMY GOODMAN | Dec. 10, 2007 (Interview)

My sources are saying that the destruction actually occurred in mid to late November of 2005. That really puts it in a different context. Two things going on at that point: one, the Justice Department has decided that it's going to bring criminal charges against Jose Padilla; two, we have the Musawi case going on in the Eastern District of Virginia, and in that case Judge Leonie Brinkema is pushing, demanding, that the government turn over any tapes that ... Full Story »

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 by Peter Henry - Oct. 1, 2008

Democracy Now! is one of the nation's finest broadcast news analysis shows. As Amy Goodman quipped recently to Don Imus, "We don't do sound bites." The website also provides free up-to-the-minute print transcripts - name another news show which even comes close. In this important piece, Goodman interviews two reporters who are following the story of the CIA destroying videotape evidence of its waterboarding and torture activities. The background information, how the CIA developed these torture techniques together with some rogue psychologists, is quite interesting. The destruction of the CIA torture tapes seems to be a criminal matter,

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