No special review in CIA tape case

A federal judge refused to order a special review of the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes, saying that there was no evidence the Bush administration defied court orders and that the Justice Department should be allowed to proceed with its own investigation.

A group of inmates at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had demanded a special review of the tape destruction. In a three-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. said the inmates offered “nothing to support their assertion” that a judicial inquiry was necessary. They have no apparent connection to the detainees whose interrogations were recorded and later destroyed, Kennedy said.