CIA Misled Judges On Terrorism Interrogations

November 19, 2007

Federal prosecutors said the CIA misled federal judges regarding the evidence against Zacarias Moussaoui, according to Greg Gordon of McClatchy Newspapers.

The CIA possessed three video and audio recordings of interrogations of senior members of al Qaida, although it is unclear whether the interrogations were conducted by the CIA or foreign agents.

In letters to Chief Judge Karen Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia, prosecutors wrote, "The fact that audio/video recordings of enemy combatant interrogations occurred, and that the United States was in possession of three of those recordings, is, as noted, inconsistent with factual assertions in CIA declarations dated May 9, 2003 . . . and November 14, 2005."

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