Jonathan Turley Calls CIA Tape Destruction "Criminal"

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Often times when writing this blog, I feel a little too under informed to adequately comment on a news story. Not Dana Perino uninformed, mind you, just a little less than up to the task. So sometimes, it's just better to post the excerpt and the link, and let you read somebody who really knows what he's talking about. Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley is just that guy. Read on. . .

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CIA Interrogation Tapes: “Bad” is Hardly the Word — Call it Criminal

I had wrapped up testifying before the House Judiciary Committee last week when a Republican Member caught me in the hall to say that yet another torture story was about to break. “It’s bad,” he grumbled. Bad is hardly the word to describe the disclosure that the Bush administration had ordered the destruction of tapes of the interrogation of al-Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah — it’s criminal. . .

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