Hearing em fitas adesivas destruídas do CIA

Um juiz dos E.U. última noite requisitou a administração de Bush explicar se o CIA violated uma ordem de corte destruindo videocassettes das interrogações ásperas de dois suspeitos do terrorismo.

O Henry Kennedy do juiz da corte de distrito dos E.U., que em 2005 tinha requisitado o governo para preservar a informação no mau trato do prisioneiro na base naval dos E.U. na baía de Guantanamo, Cuba, programou um hearing de corte nas fitas adesivas para sexta-feira, cancelando objeções do governo.

Os advogados para um grupo dos inmates da baía de Guantanamo que contestam seu detention tinham pedido o hearing para aprender se o governo complied com a ordem da preservação. They cited reports that information obtained from the interrogations implicated five unnamed Guantanamo detainees.

“We hope to establish a procedure to review the government’s handling of evidence in our case … and generally to require an accounting from a government that has admitted that it destroyed evidence,” said David Remes, an attorney for the group of inmates.

He declined to comment on whether he believed any of his clients were implicated during the interrogations.

The CIA on December 6th disclosed that it had destroyed hundreds of hours of interrogation tapes, prompting an outcry from congressional Democrats and human rights activists. The sessions recorded on the tapes were believed to have included a form of simulated drowning known as waterboarding, which has been condemned internationally as torture.

The CIA said it destroyed the tapes lawfully and did so out of concern for the safety of agents involved if the recordings were ever made public. The White House has repeatedly denied the United States tortures terrorism suspects.

The Justice Department declined to comment on the judge’s hearing order but the department last week urged Kennedy not to investigate the videotapes.

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