Government,
Criminal
Jun. 13, 2014
DOJ should expand recording 'presumption'
Effective July 11, the FBI will begin to record, by video or audio, interrogations of suspects recently taken into custody. It's about time.
For many years, when the FBI (and the other federal law enforcement agencies) would interview a suspect following an arrest, although the ensuing interrogation would be carefully controlled and planned out to the minutest detail, only "low tech" investigative tools would be used to preserve this critical evidence: often a "confession." Typically two agents would interview the suspect, with the lead agent asking questions, and a second agent taking "notes" which would later be memorialized ...
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