Judge Refuses to Sanction CIA for Destroying Waterboarding Videos

A federal judge won’t hold the CIA in contempt for destroying videotapes of detainee interrogations that included the use of a torture technique known as waterboarding, ruling instead Wednesday that the spy agency merely committed “transgressions” for its failure to abide by his court order.
Punishing the Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein […]