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To: RS
YOU made a statement that would lead one to believe you know their policy, yet cannot back up your statement.

First off, I'm not your link monkey boy. Anyway who's followed these cases knows that NCIS doesn't tape interviews. I already provided you with one link in which the NCIS spokesman explained that no federal agency was required to do so.

Second, you would quibble with any link I'd provide any way. So what's the point?

On the off-chance that you're actually interested in the issue, start here...

Lack of taping remains an issue in Marine prosecutions, North County Times, October 9, 2007

Taping interrogations of suspects is routine in state and local law enforcement investigations but is not required of federal agencies, including the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which probed the cases involving the Marines.

Disputes about the interrogations of young enlisted troops eventually charged with murder have emerged throughout the investigations of civilian killings in Haditha and Hamdania, Iraq. Those disputes led some to raise questions about whether interrogations should be recorded.

The lack of recorded interrogations also may raise questions in an ongoing investigation into whether four Iraqis detained by Camp Pendleton Marines in 2004 were shot and killed while unarmed and under the control of the troops involved.

After several court fights involving statements taken by agents in the Hamdania and Haditha cases, a Naval Criminal Investigative Service spokesman said last year said that the agency was considering a policy that would mandate the taping of suspect and witness interviews.

In the year since that statement, the Washington-based agency made up of civilian investigators working for the Department of the Navy still hasn't made a decision, spokesman Ed Buice said. The agency is still considering what type of technology might be used, how to pay for it and how to train investigators to record interviews, he said.

74 posted on 10/24/2007 1:51:02 PM PDT by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.com)
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To: RedRover

“Anyway who’s followed these cases knows that NCIS doesn’t tape interviews. I already provided you with one link in which the NCIS spokesman explained that no federal agency was required to do so. “

From your provided link -

“NCIS continues to evaluate whether the policy regarding the recording of interviews should be changed,” Buice said in response to inquiries from the North County Times. “Our current policy is the same as other federal law enforcement agencies — recording of interviews is neither required nor prohibited.”

Just what part of their statement of their current policy confused the questioners ?


76 posted on 10/24/2007 2:16:57 PM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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