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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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To: Tarpon
It’s only in hindsight you figure out how bad Bush was.

Some of us noticed a drastic difference shortly after his reelection. Bush2-Term1 was not the same guy in Bush2-Term2. He took a hard left in matters both foreign and domestic, and drove us over the hill straight to Obama.
61 posted on 04/09/2010 7:09:54 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: autumnraine
More evidence Powell and his crew are Democrats in Republican clothes.

Far worst than MeCain-type RINOs.

..as proof, the so-called Republican Powell voted for a Democrat for president.

62 posted on 04/09/2010 7:10:11 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TomGuy

Yeah, I confess I was sleeping ...


63 posted on 04/09/2010 7:10:46 AM PDT by Tarpon ( ...Rude crude socialist Obama depends on ignorance to force his will on people)
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To: Melchior

Anything Colin Powell stinks socialism.


64 posted on 04/09/2010 7:11:11 AM PDT by Tarpon ( ...Rude crude socialist Obama depends on ignorance to force his will on people)
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To: autumnraine

Well it doesn’t take much to put them into a ‘frenzied’ state. This is nothing but hearsay in order to boost a case. Nothing proven except the fact that these people are absolutely insane.


65 posted on 04/09/2010 7:15:23 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Control the American people? Herding cats would be easier.)
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