On Wednesday the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes. Attorney General Michael Mukasey announced that he was appointing John Durham, a federal prosecutor in Connecticut, to oversee the investigation after the CIA acknowledged last month that in 2005 it destroyed videos of officers using harsh interrogation methods while questioning two al-Qaida suspects. Larry Mantle and guest Loch Johnson, Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, discuss the investigation and how the case has challenged the Bush administration's controversial handling of terrorism suspects.
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