A federal judge criticized the CIA for ignoring a court order asking the agency to preserve videos of interrogations but did not hold it in contempt. The American Civil Liberties Union had brought the contempt motion in ACLU v. Department of Defense, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit begun in 2004.
An ACLU spokesperson said, “Yet again, the CIA will get away with denying the public of the best evidence of torture.” -db
From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, August 3, 2011, by Aaron Mackey.