Senate committee hearing reviews prolonged detention of Guantanamo prisoners

CIA Director Leon Panetta has argued against the release of any and all records pertaining to the destruction and content of the agency's 92 interrogation videotapes.  This comes in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.  The FOIA lawsuit is part of a pending motion to make public the treatment of prisoners held in US custody overseas.  The Senate subcommittee on the constitution held a hearing on the moral, legal and national security  consequences of prolonged detention for Guantanamo Bay detainees.  President Obama recently said some detainees are too dangerous to release or transfer for trial, meaning that they could be held indefinitely.  At today's hearing, human rights advocates and lawyers contested such ideas and if the “war or on terror”  justifies the detention of those held at Guantanamo in the first place.  FSRN Karen Miller reports.