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Old 01-31-2010, 07:28 PM   #21
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Default Re: Why is Dick Cheney still yapping?...

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June 1: "If you don't have a place where you can hold these people, your only other option is to kill them," Mr. Cheney said.

"And we don't operate that way."
Hmm. A Cheney directive, straight in nat media...

UPDATE: The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle, January 18, 9:00 AM, 2010

"Late on the evening of June 9 that year, three prisoners at Guantánamo died suddenly and violently.

"Furthermore, new evidence now emerging may entangle Obama’s young administration with crimes that occurred during the George W. Bush presidency, evidence that suggests the current administration failed to investigate seriously—and may even have continued—a cover-up of the possible homicides of three prisoners at Guantánamo in 2006."
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368

PRISONERS:

How Cheney and Addington destroyed all notions of justice
Far from being a prison for “the worst of the worst,” Guantánamo was, in fact, nothing more than a chaotic assemblage of largely random prisoners, mostly bought from the US military’s opportunistic allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, or from villagers and townspeople desperate for the bounty payments for “al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects,” averaging $5,000 a head, which were advertised on leaflets dropped from planes. These stated, “You can receive millions of dollars for helping the anti-Taliban force catch al-Qaeda and Taliban murderers. This is enough money to take care of your family, your village, your tribe for the rest of your life — pay for livestock and doctors and school books and housing for all your people.”

In addition, and contrary to Addington’s claims, none of the prisoners had been through a screening process at all.
"Guantánamo And The Many Failures Of US Politicians" Jane Mayer
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/200...s-politicians/

PROSECUTORS:

Seventh Guantanamo Prosecutor resigns over ethical issues
From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!
Friday, September 26, 2008
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Seventh_...ethical_issues

FREQUENT FLYER PROGRAM:

Guantanamo guards were instructed to discontinue the use of the technique in 2004. On August 7, 2008 the Washington Post reported that the Guantanamo guards defied their orders to discontinue practice. The report stated that the technique remained in widespread use for at least a year after its use was supposed to have been discontinued. On August 15, 2008, in testimony at Mohammed Jawad's Guantanamo military commission, Army officers confirmed the existence of the frequent flyer program.

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