Cheney's "Worst Of The Worst" Mostly Innocent & BUSHCO/CIA Knew

[kpete]

Despite repeated claims by the Bush administration and its supporters in Congress that the vast majority of the detainees were "vicious killers" who had been "captured on the battlefield," it turns out that only about 5 percent of the detainees were captured by U.S. forces. Most of the rest -- 86 percent, according to a detailed study by Seton Hall University School of Law -- were rounded up by the Northern Alliance or Pakistani security forces in exchange for the reward money, or because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

But what is most disturbing to Gorman and the other Guantanamo lawyers is that the CIA knew this almost from the beginning. A classified -- but widely leaked -- agency report from August 2002 concluded that the majority of the detainees had "no meaningful connection to Al Qaeda or the Taliban." Or, as Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, commander of Guantanamo's Delta Camp, told The Wall Street Journal, "Sometimes, we just didn't get the right folks."

Aside from the 14 "high value" detainees who were brought to Guantanamo in September 2006, virtually all of the remaining 241 prisoners are being held because, as Hood put it, "nobody wants to be the one to sign the release papers."


more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/11/730067/-Cheneys-Guantanamo-Lies

[bottomtheweaver]

1. Yes, they've known all along, and so has anyone who cared to ask.

Cockburn was writing about this years ago. That's why listening to idiotic NPR propaganda turns my stomach whenever they talk Bushco wars. They're still pretending they haven't known this since the start and yak about "high-value detainees" and all the other bullshit like we're idiots.

:mad:

[Solly Mack]

3. Yep

K&R

[Psychic Consortium]

2. The reason for the torture was not about getting information.

It is becoming more and more clear.

Sadistic sociopaths like others to feel pain.
And also to establish control and fear in others.
It is a part of their pathology.

[gordianot]

4. I agree, they want to impose their will on others.

Just as Limbaugh suggests that not all liberals should be killed (one of his many jokes) some should be kept as an example. The radical right has a very broad definition of liberal and is willing to put anyone who opposes them in that category. At some point all of their bravado and tough talk will come home. It is very hard for them to relinquish power, if they can convince someone else to do their dirty work they will become even bolder. Now that they have failed to create a popular uprising against the Obama administration the radical right (aka the GOP) will become more dangerous and they will have to use professionals like they used for torture.

There is no longer a conservative movement in this country just the Sociopathic radical right willing to kill/torture anyone, and destroy the Country (as in secession). It must create some sort of thrill for them even though they are mostly unwilling to do it themselves. Until the participants of the last administration are brought to justice we are all in peril.

[glitch]

5. You don't need real terrorists to create a false narrative.

Any body will do.