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The Missing Tape

Posted Mar 2nd 2007 6:08PM by Cenk Uygur
Filed under: Breaking News, George Bush, Young Turks

Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball have a powerful exclusive on line for Newsweek. The government has "lost" a key piece of evidence in the Jose Padilla case. It is the DVD of his last interrogation.

The court needed to see this tape to determine if Padilla was abused -- because going through 1,037 days of sensory depravation in a 9-by-7 foot cell isn't abuse enough. So, conveniently the government now says they seemed to have misplaced the recording of the interrogation. Gee, I wonder what was on that tape? No matter, probably an honest mistake. Look away.


I keep having to remind people because apparently no one cares -- Joe Padilla is a UNITED STATES CITIZEN. They didn't let him see a lawyer for over two years. In a voluntary experiment in the 1960's, the longest anyone could stand the kind of sensory depravation he endured was 48 hours. That's 2 days. Padilla went through that for 1,037 days!

He was never given any of his constitutional rights. And now when he is finally brought into court, we find out the government completely made up the story of him being a dirty bomber or planning an attack on high rises. And they happen to lose critical evidence in the case that could show their abuse. Does anyone believe this is a very lucky coincidence for the government? Does anyone believe anything these guys say anymore?

Jose Padilla is a United States citizen! Does anyone care about the US constitution anymore?

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