Guantanamo lawyers want ex-CIA official to testify

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

By Jane Sutton

MIAMI | Wed May 16, 2012 7:00pm EDT

(Reuters) - Defense lawyers want to force a former CIA official who supervised what they called torture of al Qaeda captives to testify in the war crimes tribunal for five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks.

They argue that Jose Rodriguez, former director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, has information pertinent to the defense allegation that the government is using security classifications to hide evidence their clients were tortured.

The lawyers want Rodriguez to testify during a hearing set for June 12-15 for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed architect of the hijacked plane attacks, and four other captives accused of funding and training the hijackers.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/16/us-usa-guantanamo-idUSBRE84F1HF20120516

[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[gratuitous]

2. So, will we have a real trial?

Or will the defense be hamstrung by not being able to call material witnesses? I smell another triumph for American jurisprudence on a par with Citizens United or Bush v. Gore!