Martha Raddatz, ABC News In an exclusive interview with ABC News President Bush said Tuesday he did not know about the destruction of CIA videotapes of detainee interrogations. The President said he was told just a few days ago. “My first recollection of whether the tapes existed or whether they were destroyed was when [CIA…
MATT APUZZO, AP News The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that revealed some of its harshest interrogation tactics. Normally, that would force the government to defend itself against obstruction allegations. But the CIA may have an out: its clandestine…
By Keith St. Clair,The Fresno Bee A federal appeals court ruled Monday that some portions of the U.S. Patriot Act that govern dealings with foreign terrorist organizations are unconstitutional because the language is too vague to be understood by a person of ordinary intelligence. The ruling released Monday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of…
David Edwards and Muriel Kane, Raw Story The Civil Rights Division has been one of the jewels of the Justice Department. Founded in 1957, it played a leading role in the elimination of segregation and protection of minority rights. But according to MSNBC’s Dan Abrams, the Bush administration “has turned the division against the very…
