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Douglas Cox

avatar Douglas Cox is an Associate Law Library Professor at the City University of New York School of Law. He previously practiced law in London and New York focusing on cross-border legal issues and litigation. He has represented individuals detained in Guantanamo and also previously worked in military intelligence in the U.S. Army.


Burn After Viewing: The CIA’s Destruction of the Abu Zubaydah Tapes and the Law of Federal Records

Burn After Viewing: The CIA’s Destruction of the Abu Zubaydah Tapes and the Law of Federal Records

May 27, 2011 | 2 Comments | By Douglas Cox

On December 6, 2007, the Central Intelligence Agency publiclydisclosed that in 2005 it had destroyed videotapes of CIA interrogations of alleged terrorist Abu Zubaydah conducted in 2002 and asserted that the destruction was “in line with the law.”