"Do you understand how it might be difficult for me to understand that a tape related to this particular individual just got mislaid?" – U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke, referring to a critical tape of a critical "interrogation session" with Jose Padilla, that the government has "lost."
"I don’t know what happened to it," said Pentagon attorney James Schmidli. It seems to me that, in the matters of habeas corpus and torture, this administration deserves no benefit of any doubt. They disappear people; and now they disappear critical evidence. Such critical evidence relates to the detention of a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil for over three years without charges, allegations of torture and abuse, and psychological trauma.
"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle."
The Dish 