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Bush Official: We Knew Gitmo Inmates Were Innocent
Newser ^ | 04/09/2010 | Caroline Miller

Posted on 04/09/2010 6:01:07 AM PDT by autumnraine

The Bush White House knew that hundreds of early Gitmo detainees were innocent, but refused to release them because the admission would weaken support for the war in Iraq, according to a new document obtained by the Times of London. The charge, by Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, was made in a declaration in support of a lawsuit for a Gitmo detainee. Wilkerson claims that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees had been picked up, not by the US military, but by Afghans and Pakistanis for a bounty, and there was no evidence against them. But they saw it as "politically impossible to release them."

If innocent detainees were released, he writes, “the detention efforts would be revealed as the incredibly confused operation that they were.” Of Cheney, he writes: “He had absolutely no concern that the vast majority of Guantánamo detainees were innocent. If hundreds of innocent individuals had to suffer in order to detain a handful of hardcore terrorists, so be it.” Wilkerson also says he discussed the issue with Powell, who told him it was not just Cheney and Rumsfeld, "but also President Bush who was involved in all of the Guantánamo decision making.”


TOPICS: Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush43; colinpowell; detainees; effinpowell; liars; mferpowell; powell; traitorpowell
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The left going nuts over this.
1 posted on 04/09/2010 6:01:08 AM PDT by autumnraine
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To: autumnraine

I’m suspicious of anyone who worked for Colin Powell.


2 posted on 04/09/2010 6:02:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: autumnraine

Is this story true?


3 posted on 04/09/2010 6:02:48 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: autumnraine

I’m sure that Semi-Colon Powell’s lackey would call it straight, yes sir.


4 posted on 04/09/2010 6:03:35 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: autumnraine

What a load of crap! Innocent of what?


5 posted on 04/09/2010 6:03:38 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: autumnraine

More BS for you as you drink your AM coffee.


6 posted on 04/09/2010 6:04:23 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: RexBeach

It seems hundreds have been released already. We’ve only kept the ones that are really considered dangerous or war criminals. So I don’t see how this is even a major story...just some blow hard making noise because he wants to write a book.


7 posted on 04/09/2010 6:05:47 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Mike Mathis is my name,opinions are my own,subject to flaming when deserved!)
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To: autumnraine

All the Americans who died on 9/11 were innocent, and the Muslim world celebrated. So I don’t really give a damn.


8 posted on 04/09/2010 6:05:47 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (If one racist Tea-Partier proves all conservatives hate, what do 500 Muslim suicide bombers prove?)
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To: RexBeach

Its another Wilkerson fabrication to sell books.


9 posted on 04/09/2010 6:06:06 AM PDT by HD1200
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yep, you nail it ... Colin Powell gives it away.

Innocent or not, the Geneva Convention allows retention of all POWs until war’s end.


10 posted on 04/09/2010 6:06:06 AM PDT by Tarpon ( ...Rude crude socialist Obama depends on ignorance to force his will on people)
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To: RexBeach

....someone left a bs generator on overnight


11 posted on 04/09/2010 6:06:10 AM PDT by himno hero
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To: autumnraine

Wilkerson is a liar. It’s just that simple.


12 posted on 04/09/2010 6:06:40 AM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I’m suspicious of anyone who worked for Colin Powell.

I agree. This does not pass the smell test. My 'beeber' is going off.


13 posted on 04/09/2010 6:06:59 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: autumnraine
The Bush administration did release many from Gitmo but how were they supposed to be sure what information against them another country had or did not have?

That is like blaming someone for not knowing what is in their neighbors refrigerator.

14 posted on 04/09/2010 6:07:24 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Figures.)
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To: autumnraine

If all of the Gitmo detainess were captured while on the battlefield, how could any of them be innocent? Perhaps one or two of them were delivering pizza and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time... BS!


15 posted on 04/09/2010 6:07:44 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: autumnraine

Someone can give some background on Wilkerson ? Sounds like a traitor to me.


16 posted on 04/09/2010 6:07:45 AM PDT by major-pelham
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To: autumnraine

Hmmmm...why do I suspect that this information is NOT accurate?


17 posted on 04/09/2010 6:07:59 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: autumnraine

What does “innocent” mean in this context? Does it mean they were not active combatants against our military? They may very well have been taliban members that Afghanis and Pakistanis wished to be rid of.

Either way, I agree with the decision.


18 posted on 04/09/2010 6:08:12 AM PDT by chickadee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I call BS on this one. Another Leftist elbow at the ribs of the Bush Administration IMO.


19 posted on 04/09/2010 6:08:55 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: autumnraine

Anybody that worked for Colin Powell should be arrested and sent to Gitmo, as should his Chief A$$-Hat, Powell himself.


20 posted on 04/09/2010 6:08:57 AM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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