JOHN W. DEAN The Investigations of the Destruction of CIA Torture Tapes: How An ACLU Lawsuit Might Force the Bush Administration To Reveal What Actually Happened FindLaw columnist and former counsel to the president John Dean considers what actions Southern District of New York federal judge Alvin Hellerstein may take regarding the CIA's reported destruction of tapes of detainee interrogations that employed torture. It appears that the CIA should have produced, or at least preserved, the tapes in response to a document request by the ACLU in a case before Judge Hellerstein investigating the treatment of detainees. Though there are ten or more ongoing investigations into the tapes and their destruction, Dean predicts the most fruitful avenue of inquiry of all will center on Judge Hellerstein's courtroom.