Posted by
Icarus on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:58:12 PM
With law school deans like Yale's
Harold Koh and Irvine's
Erwin Chemerinsky we can expect a lot more rulings
like this for years to come.
NEW YORK - A judge has given the CIA a month to begin releasing
documents related to the destruction of videotapes of detainee
interrogations.
Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan federal court says the CIA
should start turning over the information and a list of witnesses to
the American Civil Liberties Union within 30 days or explain why the
agency should be exempt.
The judge reviewed the CIA documents and on Friday gave the agency until April 9 to produce a schedule for releasing them.
An ongoing criminal probe is exploring why the CIA destroyed videotapes in 2005 that document new harsh questioning techniques.
The ACLU says the destruction violated Hellerstein's 2004 order to
the CIA to preserve all records pertaining to the treatment of
detainees.