Intel agent strapped onto gurney and flown out of Iraq? HUH!???

[Guarionex]

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article7446.htm

Put this one in the "WTF?" category...

An agent is strapped to a gurney and removed from Iraq after he said he has witnessed torture in Iraq.

What a way to "silence" the whistleblowers....

Note to self: if a U.S. official ever tells me to lie on a gurney...RUN! RUN!!!!!!!

[htuttle]

1. Wonder if he looked like this?

Thought that description sounded kind of familiar...

[Gary173]

2. Once found incompetent, they can keep you.

The following is clipped from The Manual for Courts Martial amended 12/03/04 by executive order 13365

(c) R.C.M. 707(c) is amended to read as follows:

``(c) Excludable delay. All periods of time during which appellate courts
have issued stays in the proceedings, or the accused is absent without
authority, or the accused is hospitalized due to incompetence, or is
otherwise in the custody of the Attorney General, shall be excluded when
determining whether the period in subsection (a) of this rule has run. All
other pretrial delays approved by a military judge or the convening
authority shall be similarly excluded.''

Discussion
Under section 4241(d) of title 18, the initial period of hospitalization for an incompetent
accused shall not exceed four months.However, in determining whether there is a substantial probability the accused will attain the capacity to permit the trial
to proceed in the foreseeable future, the accused may be hospitalized
for an additional reasonable period of time. This additional
period of time ends either when the accused’s mental condition is
improved so that trial may proceed, or when the pending charges
against the accused are dismissed. If charges are dismissed solely
due to the accused’s mental condition, the accused is subject to
hospitalization as provided in section 4246 of title 18.

[Keirsey]

3. democracynow.org transcript

Intel Agent Strapped to Gurney and Flown Out of Iraq by U.S. Army After Reporting Torture of Detainees

A veteran sergeant who told his commanding officers that he witnessed his colleagues torturing Iraqi detainees was strapped to a gurney and flown out of Iraq - even though there was nothing wrong with him. We speak with the reporter - former U.S. Army counterintelligence agent David DeBatto - who broke the story.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/09/1516228#transcript