Salon: They should look in the grocery bag under Judy Miller's desk(Missing Video in Padilla case)

[maddezmom]

The Defense Intelligence Agency has a DVD showing the final interrogation of Jose Padilla as an "enemy combatant" at the U.S.Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina. Or at least it did. Now that Padilla faces trial in Florida, the U.S. Attorney's Office handling the case says that the DIA can't seem to find the video.

As Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball report, "The disclosure that the Pentagon had lost a potentially important piece of evidence in one of the U.S. government's highest-profile terrorism cases" has been met with "claims of incredulity by some defense lawyers and human-rights groups monitoring the case." Human Rights Watch lawyer John Sifton puts a fine point on it: "This is the kind of thing you hear when you're litigating cases in Egypt or Morocco or Karachi."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/03/01/padilla/index.html?source=rss


The Case of the Missing Movie
The government made a secret video of its interrogations of 'enemy combatant' Jose Padilla. But now that he's on trial, the Feds claim they don't know where it went.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17389175/site/newsweek/

[sabra]

1. why do I have flashbacks of Bush's looking for WMD under his desk skit?

:mad:

[ThomCat]

2. When one side has access to the evidence

OF COURSE the evidence they don't like is going to disapear. x(