Glenn Greenwald over the weekend asked What happened to the Padilla interrorgation videos. Jose Padilla is a US Citizen, arrested in Chicago in May 2002, and held in miltary prison as an enemy combatant since June 2002. He has yet to be charged with any crime. He claims he's been tortured. He might well be a terrorist, but that doesn't excuse what we've done.
His lawyers wanted the recordings of his interrogation sessions, particular the last one from March 2004. The government has claimed they lost that one. Seriously. And to put it in Grey's Anatomy terms, seriously. Reminds me of this recent SNL skit. Thankfully "U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke was incredulous that anything connected to such a high-profile defendant could be lost."
Greenwald writes: "Of course, even if administration's patently unbelievable claim were true -- namely, that it did 'lose' the video of its interrogation of this Extremely Dangerous International Terrorist -- that would, by itself, evidence a reckless ineptitude with American national security so grave that it ought to be a scandal by itself."
I was talking about the TV show 24 with a friend recently. I said that I think it's really fun during the hour, but if you think about it afterwards it's getting very ridiculous. Compared to say West Wing, it seems every aspect of the government in that show, which is the CTU and the White House is incompetent and filled with traitors. My friend responded: "Isn't that what your blog is all about?"
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