Still convinced it's not a fascist dictatorship yet, reader?
"Justice Dept. trying to curb inquiry on tape destruction" by Matt Apuzzo/Associated Press December 16, 2007
WASHINGTON - 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 coequals to stay out of the investigation.
The Justice Department says it needs time and the freedom to probe the destruction of hundreds of hours of recordings of two suspected terrorists. After Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused congressional demands for information Friday, the Justice Department filed late-night court documents urging a federal judge not to begin his own inquiry.
The administration argued that it was not obligated to preserve the videotapes and told US District Judge Henry H. Kennedy that demanding information about them "could potentially complicate the ongoing efforts to arrive at a full factual understanding of the matter."
Congressional inquiries and criminal investigations frequently overlap, and it is not uncommon for the Justice Department to ask lawmakers to ease off. The request for the court to stand down is more unusual.
Like the NORAD stand down on 9/11, huh?
Judges take seriously even the suggestion that evidence was destroyed, but they also are reluctant to wade into political debates. Legal experts say it will be up to Mukasey, a former judge who only recently took over as the nation's chief law enforcer, to reassure Congress and the courts during his first high-profile test.
Kennedy ordered the administration in June 2005 to safeguard "all evidence and information regarding the torture, mistreatment, and abuse of detainees now at the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay."
Five months later, the CIA destroyed the interrogation videos.
CRIMINAL!
Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey S. Bucholtz argued that the tapes were not covered by Kennedy's court order because Zubaydah and al-Nashiri were not at the Guantanamo military prison in Cuba. The men were being held overseas in a network of secret CIA prisons.
By the time President Bush acknowledged the existence of those prisons and the prisoners were transferred to Guantanamo, the tapes had been destroyed.
Yeah, sort of like it was ALL PLANNED if you look at the "coincidental" timing.
This fucking god-damn criminal administration and the shit media that sucks its cock!
I hate AmeriKa now!!
Not America, AMERIKA!!!!!!
Even if Kennedy agrees that the government did not violate his order, he still could schedule a hearing. He could raise questions about obstruction or spoliation, a legal term for the destruction of evidence in "pending or reasonably foreseeable litigation."
Whatever!
Like this criminal administration will ever be held accountable by the shit Congress or AmeriKan MSM!
"Court Inquiry on Tape Case Is Opposed" by SCOTT SHANE
The Justice Department has urged a federal judge not to hold a hearing on the Central Intelligence Agency’s destruction of videotaped interrogations of two suspected Al Qaeda operatives, saying a judicial inquiry “is both unnecessary and potentially disruptive.”
The department’s Friday night filing raises a similar point, saying a court hearing “could potentially complicate the ongoing efforts to arrive at a full factual understanding of the matter.”
Who can trust the courts, anyway?
"Court Upholds Giving Suspect Antipsychotics"
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court on Friday upheld a judge’s order that the woman accused of aiding in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart be forcibly medicated for mental illness.
The woman, Wanda Barzee, 62, has fought the forced administration of antipsychotic drugs, saying through her lawyers that the medication is against her religion.
A district judge ordered forced medication in June 2006.
Ms. Barzee has been deemed incompetent to stand trial three times. She and her estranged husband, Brian D. Mitchell, face multiple felony charges in the abduction of Ms. Smart.
Eight mental health professionals have evaluated Ms. Barzee and agree she suffers from a psychotic disorder and persecutory and grandiose delusions, including believing that God speaks to her through a television set. Evaluators have said the chance of restoring Ms. Barzee’s competency with medication is 20 percent to 70 percent.
God speaks to George Bush.
Are they medicating him or is he doing it himself, and why isn't he at least removed from office?
We all know why!
In its 3-to-2 decision Friday, the court said the district court’s finding that it was likely that Ms. Barzee’s competency could be restored was not “clearly erroneous,” and should therefore stand.
Chief Justice Christine Durham dissented, saying that she believed restoration was not likely and that she found it “impermissible for the State to intrude upon Ms. Barzee’s federal constitutional liberty interest in freedom from unwanted medications.”
It is unclear when the treatment would begin. The Department of Human Services, which oversees the state mental hospital where Ms. Barzee is housed, must first review the court’s ruling with the Utah attorney general’s office and then talk with doctors about a treatment plan, said the deputy director of the department, Mark Ward.
Ms. Barzee’s Salt Lake City lawyer, Scott Williams, was out of his office and not immediately available for comment.
Ms. Smart, 20, was taken from the bedroom of her Salt Lake City home in June 2002, when she was 14, and found nine months later with Ms. Barzee and Mr. Mitchell, a homeless man who had once worked as a day laborer at the house. Ms. Barzee and Mr. Mitchell are charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, burglary and conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
In 2004, Ms. Barzee filed for divorce from Mr. Mitchell, who has also been found incompetent to stand trial. He is also being held at the state mental hospital and has refused medications."
That's what the charge against ALL of US will be someday! If you don't conform to the government and MSM's lying version of history and reality, that is!
Good-bye, America, for you are now dead!
You have become AMERIKA!!!!!!!
