Did Gitmo Interrogators Destroy Evidence

clipped from thinkprogress.org A military defense lawyer today said that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were instructed by the Pentagon “to destroy handwritten notes that might have exposed harsh or even illegal questioning methods.” According to Navy Lt. Commander Bill Kuebler, who is representing Canadian Omar Khadr, interrogators may have “routinely destroyed evidence” that could have been used to defend Khadr and other detainees.

This should be illegal on a lot of levels -- obstruction, evidence tampering, conspiracy, etc. If the allegations are proven, however, expect the administration to argue that the law doesn't apply at Guantanamo -- which is supposedly outside of US jurisdiction because it's Cuba.

If they do this, what they're basically saying is that Gitmo is an anarchy where law is meaningless. The problem with this argument, of course, is that it renders any trials of Gitmo detainees a pointless sham.