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Cheney Lies, Obstruction Of Justice & Torture Tape Destruction
/130 Comments/in Bush Administration, emptywheel, Intelligence, Law, Torture Tape/by emptywheelMarcy noted earlier the article in today’s Washington Post by Peter Finn and Joby Warrick detailing the story surrounding abu-Zubaydah’s capture and torture. I want to pick up where Marcy left off; i.e. the evidence that nothing was obtained from abu-Zubaydah’s torture is the reason the torture tapes destroyed.
We Have Met The WMD Terrorists, And They Are US
/in emptywheel, Intelligence, Law, Terrorism/by bmazThe Bush Administration leaned on the Swiss government to destroy crucial evidence in a broad investigation into the nuclear proliferation network of AQ Khan because the information would implicate the CIA and US Government in a web of entangled activities. As a result, innumerable criminal investigations have been compromised, if not destroyed altogether. And Khan and the others walk free.
The Strange Case of Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul (Part 1)
/in Bush Administration, Intelligence, Terrorism, War/by WilliamOckhamIn June 2004, Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul had his 15 minutes of fame when Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld answered questions at a press conference about the detainee known to American soldiers only as Triple X, the first ghost detainee transferred from CIA custody to the U.S. military. Rashul was suspected of being a member of Ansar al-Islam, a violent Kurdish Sunni Islamist movement opposed to the dominant Kurdish groups of northeastern Iraq. The real story of Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul wasn’t his terrorist past or his time as a ghost detainee of the DOD, but his treatment by the CIA in between.
The Missing Emails and the OVP Coverup
/47 Comments/in CIA Leak Case/by emptywheelBoth the defense and prosecution introduced a bunch of articles referencing the Plame leak–and particularly OVP’s role in it–between September 27, 2003 to October 12, 2003. But some are missing–most importantly, a bunch that came out while Libby was in Jackson and Cathie Martin was apparently in DC making statements claiming Libby wasn’t involved.