White House faces hearing on CIA tapes

[lonestarnot]

Source: Associated Press

By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 23 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has made its position clear in legal filings and now gets a chance to say it to a judge in open court: Hold off on inquiring about the destruction of CIA videotapes that showed suspected terrorists being interrogated.

U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy ordered the hearing Friday over the objection of the Justice Department after lawyers raised questions about the possibility that other evidence also might have been destroyed.

Kennedy, appointed to the trial court by President Clinton, is considering whether to delve into the matter and, if so, how deeply...

Kennedy was as a federal prosecutor during the Nixon and Ford administrations until he was named a federal magistrate judge in 1976. President Carter appointed him to be a judge in the District of Columbia's courts and Clinton named him to the federal bench.





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[Triana]

1. NO WAY and for NO REASON should an inquiry/investigation into those destoyed tapes...

...be delayed or held off. If bu$hit, Inc. is protesting - THEY'RE HIDING SOMETHING - and we need to KNOW what they're hiding.

Creeps.

[pleah]

2. K &R Judge Kennedy should not let these bastards off the hook.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. Bush will ignore whatever the judge has to say

and no one, sadly, will do anything about it.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. Exactly. And that is just so frustrating.

You or I would be doing life for the stuff these guys have done. They just skate. And then just turn around and do it again and again and again.

[pleah]

6. I refuse to give up hope.

[KoKo]

4. C-Span just announced they will have people there to cover the hearing when it adjourns.

They didn't give a time... I'll try to keep checking.

[focusfan]

7. i don't look for it but i hope they sock it to Bush and his croonies

that would be a great day