from Secrecy News by Steven Aftergood
In a report to the National Archives (pdf) released last week, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said it could not locate a recording of the final interrogation of Jose Padilla, the American citizen who was designated an enemy combatant and later convicted of conspiracy to commit murder.
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By Andy Worthington, AlterNet
Posted on January 22, 2008, Printed on January 23, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/74590/
The news that US citizen Jose Padilla has received a prison sentence of 17 years and four months should provoke outrage in the United States, although it is unlikely that there will be much more than a whimper of dissent.
http://www.rawstory.com/…
Jose Padilla is sentenced to 17 years
Convicted Terror Conspirator Jose Padilla Sentenced to 17 Years, 4 Months
CURT ANDERSON
AP News
Jan 22, 2008 14:09 EST
Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive “dirty bomb,” was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on terrorism conspiracy charges that don’t mention those initial allegations.
BY JAY WEAVER
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
August 31, 2006
MIAMI — On a visit to Moscow in 2002, then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft trumpeted on television that “we have captured a known terrorist” who was plotting to blow up a radioactive “dirty bomb” in the United States.
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