[Sosfbay-discuss] Murder Will Out

[Brian Good]

   Scott Horton (Harper's) has interviewed four soldiers from Guantanamo
who have convincing information suggesting that three prisoners died
under interrogation from having rags stuffed down their throats.

  Soldiers were told that the three had committed suicide by rag, were
told that the news reports would report they had hanged themselves, 
and were ordered not to say anything contradicting the news reports 
and reminded that their emails were being monitored.  You might 
remember that at the time (2006) the Gitmo commander declared these 
alleged suicides to be "an act of asymmetrical warfare."    

  A navy investigation reported that the men had hanged themselves.  
When the bodies were returned to the families, the larynxes, hyoid 
bones, and thyroid cartilage -- which would have allowed determination 
of whether death was by hanging, strangulation, or choking -- were all 
missing.

  After Obama was inaugurated, Joe Hickman, one of the Gitmo soldiers, 
went to the Obama Department of Justice with information suggesting 
the suicide story was false.  The DoJ investigator, Teresa McHenry, 
dropped the case last November, claiming  “the gist of Sergeant Hickman’s 
information could not be confirmed.”

   Mr. Horton has long been saying that we can't expect the DoJ to do
the right thing in these matters because the DoJ is itself "a crime scene."
In this case he insinuates that the DoJ participated in the coverup from 
the start, and McHenry may be aware of its criminal nature.  Horton also
points out that another prisoner death last June was inadequately
explained.   Horton concludes: "Those charged with accounting for what 
happened ... face a choice between
the rule of law and the expedience 
of political silence. Thus far,
their choice has been unanimous."

   Horton's article will be in the March issue of Harper's.  

UK Guardian article:   
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/18/guantanamo-investigation-harpers-interrogation

summary of Horton article:

http://pubrecord.org/torture/6626/murders-guantanamo-exposing-truth/comment-page-1/

Horton article:

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368

   
   I'd like to add:  The Obama Justice Department has weighed in on
federal court cases several times asserting State Secrets privileges 
more aggressively than the Bush administration did.  And though
Attorney General Holder promised that the report on torture lawyer
John Yoo would be released last December, it has not yet been made
public.



   








 		 	   		  
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