Judge Gives Government 10 Days to Avoid Contempt on CIA Tapes
A federal judge said Monday he was prepared to hold the CIA in civil contempt over the destruction of videotapes in which high-level al-Qaida detainees were interrogated abroad. But the judge said at a hearing that he would give the government 10 days to produce a declaration to convince him why he should refrain from a contempt finding and from ordering production of a list of the tapes, information on witnesses and any documents or memoranda relevant to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act request.
