Hundreds of Videos Not Given to Justice

[Eugene]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5212450,00.html

Hundreds of Videos Not Given to Justice


Tuesday August 16, 2005 1:01 AM

By PETE YOST

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department's inspector general said
Monday a federal prison center in Brooklyn, N.Y., failed to turn over
hundreds of videotapes to investigators probing the treatment of
detainees taken into custody after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons discovered the tapes in February, 14 months
after the IG found some staff members abused some detainees at the
Metropolitan Detention Center.

Some tapes from the Metropolitan Detention Center contain
conversations between lawyers and their clients, IG Glenn Fine said
in a report to Congress. Fine is looking into the detention center's
failure to produce the tapes during his investigation.

Lawyers for the Legal Aid Society are suing detention center officers
for secretly videotaping their conversations at the center. The
lawyers say they were assured by the prison that the attorneys'
conversations with their clients were not being taped, despite the
video cameras on the walls of the facility.

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[hiley]

1. thanks

for finding this.

[EST]

2. Beginning to look like soldiering and psychiatry

are going to be rather high volume trades for a while.

[SpiralHawk]

3. BushCo Republicans = torture

An ugly scenario right out of the Skull & Boner krypt where Bushes hide the true light.

[struggle4progress]

5. Ya doesn't seem too surprised, neither. eom

[Inland]

4. Somebody covered up and broke the law

I smell presidential commendation!