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Missing words from 9-11 tribunal: CIA and "big-boy pants"
Source: Reuters
Missing words from 9-11 tribunal: CIA and "big-boy pants"
By Jane Sutton
MIAMI | Wed May 9, 2012 9:03pm EDT
(Reuters) - The Pentagon revealed on Wednesday what was said when an over-cautious court security officer blocked the sound during Saturday's arraignment of five Guantanamo prisoners charged with plotting the September 11 attacks.
It was a snide reference to Bush-era CIA interrogators, a transcript showed. Air Force Captain Michael Schwartz was explaining why defendant Walid Bin Attash was refusing to cooperate during the hearing in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.
"The reason for that is the torture that my client was subjected to by the men and women wearing the big-boy pants down at the CIA, it makes it impossible ..." Schwartz said during the blocked portion of the arraignment.
That was a dig at Jose Rodriguez, the former director of the CIA's National Clandestine Services, who described in a recent interview with the CBS television show "60 Minutes" how the agency obtained legal authorization from the Bush White House to use "enhanced interrogation techniques" on suspected al Qaeda captives.
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By Jane Sutton
MIAMI | Wed May 9, 2012 9:03pm EDT
(Reuters) - The Pentagon revealed on Wednesday what was said when an over-cautious court security officer blocked the sound during Saturday's arraignment of five Guantanamo prisoners charged with plotting the September 11 attacks.
It was a snide reference to Bush-era CIA interrogators, a transcript showed. Air Force Captain Michael Schwartz was explaining why defendant Walid Bin Attash was refusing to cooperate during the hearing in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.
"The reason for that is the torture that my client was subjected to by the men and women wearing the big-boy pants down at the CIA, it makes it impossible ..." Schwartz said during the blocked portion of the arraignment.
That was a dig at Jose Rodriguez, the former director of the CIA's National Clandestine Services, who described in a recent interview with the CBS television show "60 Minutes" how the agency obtained legal authorization from the Bush White House to use "enhanced interrogation techniques" on suspected al Qaeda captives.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/10/us-usa-guantanamo-idUSBRE84901O20120510