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Document Destruction
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
L.A. County scraps policy
California | Local |
November 26, 2008
Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to suspend the process used to evaluate many of the county’s competitive contract bids and ordered a stop to a decades-old practice of shredding documents created during such reviews. Read more
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Justice lawyers knew of tapes
National |
February 7, 2008
Justice Department attorneys apparently have known since early 2006 that the CIA destroyed videotaped interrogations of a key terror suspect, federal court documents unsealed Wednesday showed. Read more
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Senator sends NFL questions
Sports |
February 2, 2008
PHOENIX – In the latest example that Congress is keeping a focused eye on the NFL, a senior senator said Friday that he wants the league to explain why it destroyed the videotapes from a cheating scandal involving the New England Patriots. Read more
Friday, January 25, 2008
Judge demands to know why CIA tapes trashed
National |
January 25, 2008
A federal judge said Thursday that CIA interrogation videotapes may have been relevant to a case he’s presiding over, and he gave the Bush administration three weeks to explain why they were destroyed in 2005 and say whether other evidence was destroyed. Read more
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Lawmaker says CIA official defied instructions on videos
National |
January 17, 2008
A senior House Republican said information gathered by the House Intelligence Committee indicated that a high-ranking CIA official ordered the destruction of videotapes depicting agency interrogation sessions even though he was directed not to do so. Read more
White House recycled backup tapes of e-mails
National |
January 17, 2008
The White House acknowledges recycling backup computer tapes of e-mail, a practice that may have wiped out many electronic messages from the early years of the Bush administration, including some pertaining to the CIA leak case. Read more
Friday, January 4, 2008
Letter said CIA image to suffer if tapes trashed
National |
January 4, 2008
More than two years before the CIA destroyed interrogation videotapes, top officials were urged to preserve them by a senior lawmaker who warned that disposing of the recordings would “reflect badly on the agency.” Read more
Monday, December 24, 2007
Wagons circled at CIA over tapes’ demise
National |
December 24, 2007
Shortly after he arrived as CIA director in 2004, Porter J. Goss
met with the agency’s top spies and general counsel to discuss a
range of issues, including what to do with videotapes showing harsh
interrogations of Al Qaeda detainees, according to current and former
officials familiar with the matter. Read more
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Judge reluctant to probe CIA’s destruction of tapes
National |
December 22, 2007
A federal judge appeared reluctant Friday to investigate the
destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, saying the Justice
Department is conducting its own inquiry. Read more
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Subpoena of CIA officials threatened
National |
December 20, 2007
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, chafing at the
Justice Department’s handling of a probe into missing CIA
interrogation tapes, threatened Wednesday to subpoena two top CIA
officials to jump-start the panel’s own investigation. Read more
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
White House must answer questions over CIA tapes
National |
December 19, 2007
Over the objections of the Justice Department, a federal judge
said Tuesday he would explore whether the U.S. had violated a court
order to preserve evidence when the CIA destroyed videotaped
interrogations of two terrorism suspects in 2005. Read more
Monday, December 17, 2007
House vows to pursue CIA inquiry
National |
December 17, 2007
The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee vowed
Sunday to press ahead with the congressional investigation of the
CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes, despite the strenuous
objections of the Justice Department. Read more
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Legal fight breaks out over destroyed CIA tapes
National |
December 16, 2007
The controversy over destroyed CIA interrogation tapes is shaping
up as a turf battle involving the courts, Congress and the White
House, with the Bush administration telling its constitutional equals
to stay out of the investigation. Read more
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Justice acts to control tapes probe
National |
December 15, 2007
The Justice Department on Friday moved to consolidate control over
the investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes,
saying that neither it nor the intelligence agency would cooperate
with congressional probes into the matter. Read more
Thursday, December 13, 2007
CIA chief says Congress not fully informed
National |
December 13, 2007
CIA Director Michael V. Hayden acknowledged Wednesday that the
agency failed to keep key congressional committees adequately
informed of the CIA’s decision to destroy videotapes of secret interrogations. Read more
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Senators to expand probe into CIA’s tape destruction
National |
December 12, 2007
Lawmakers leading the Senate investigation of the CIA’s
destruction of interrogation videotapes said there were gaps in the
testimony of CIA Director Michael V. Hayden on Tuesday and outlined
plans to call a series of witnesses as part of an expanding probe. Read more
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Destroyed tapes could put CIA in legal tangles
National |
December 11, 2007
In reconstructing the events leading up to Sept. Read more
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Congress demands CIA tape inquiry
National |
December 8, 2007
Key members of Congress on Friday called for multiple
investigations into the CIA’s destruction of interrogation
videotapes, charging the agency may have eliminated evidence of
torture, obstructed justice or engaged in an illegal coverup. Read more
Friday, December 7, 2007
CIA destroyed secret tapes of interrogations
National |
December 7, 2007
The CIA said Thursday that it had destroyed videotapes of its
secret interrogations of terrorism suspects, taking the action at a
time when the agency’s harsh methods were coming under intense
congressional and legal scrutiny. Read more
