Thursday, June 16, 2005

Pentagon Minutes may Prove Gitmo War Crimes

From ABC News: Alberto Mora, General Counsel of the Navy, warned his superiors that they might be breaking the law, according to notes from a series of meetings at the Pentagon in early 2003, due to the interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. Mora warned that "use of coercive techniques … has military, legal, and political implication … has international implication … and exposes us to liability and criminal prosecution." A group of top Pentagon lawyers concluded (according to the memo) "we need a presidential letter approving the use of the controversial interrogation to cover those who may be called upon to use them." Shockingly... no such letter was issued. And this from Boston Com News: Top Navy officials were so outraged at abusive interrogation techniques being used at the Gitmo in late 2002 that they considered removing Navy interrogators from the operation, according to a portion of a recent Pentagon report that has not been made public. Of course though, when Sen Durbin (D-IL) said this: ""If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -Pol Pot or others- that had no concern for human beings"-- the GOP lying spew went off the hook & called Durbin a traitor.But I dare ANYONE to show me where Durbin said that "what our American soldiers had done to prisoners". Guess what?... you won't b/c Durbin said "what AMERICANS had done to prisoners" b/c he knows that plenty of hired US contractors and intelligent agents did these things, too, as ordered per the US White House & Rumsfeld. Durbin is correct that it should be our govt who apologizes, not him.
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