skippy the bush kangaroo: time to look back

Monday, December 07, 2009

time to look back

if barack "to the future" obama would like us to look forward, not back, when should we expect gitmo to be closed?

since that seems currently unscheduled, let's take a look at an episode from the "dark days" of 2006. scott horton on huffpo reports on a seton hall university law school study on three suspicious "suicides" and the compelling evidence of a cover-up.

law professor mark denbeaux, who directed the study, said in an interview that "there are two possibilities here. either the investigation is a cover-up of gross dereliction of duty, or it is a cover-up of something far more chilling. more than three years later we do not know what really happened." (Read a q&a with denbeaux: "'the most innocent explanation is that this is gitmo meets lord of the flies'".)

the study is the eleventh in a series of reports by the seton hall law school examining issues related to the detention regime at guantanamo and establishing that a number of pentagon claims about guantanamo and the prisoners held there are pure myths. one earlier report established that over 80% of the prisoners were captured not by americans on the battlefield but by pakistanis and afghans, often in exchange for bounty payments. another demonstrated that the guantanamo combat status review tribunals consistently failed to follow their own rules and were frequently convened for purposes of overturning determinations made by earlier tribunals that prisoners were not enemy combatants. another debunked bush administration claims denying the existence of tapes of prisoner interrogations, and demonstrated that 24,000 such tapes were made, together with extensive notes based on them.

this latest study comes shortly after the resignation of the obama administration's two top officials responsible for detainee issues: white house counsel greg craig and deputy assistant secretary of defense phil carter.

Labels: guantanamo bay

posted by mahakal at 11:57 AM |

2 Comments:

I am at the end of my rope, as Obama failed his promise to shut down the iraq war... still 100,000 troops strong.....
as well as Gitmo & now a 2nd war escalation.

Show us the change!

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