Bush Regime Asks Judge To Gag Gitmo Detainees To Prevent Disclosures On CIA Torture Prisons

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Bush Administration Wants Terror Detainees Silenced on Secret CIA Prisons

By VOA News
04 November 2006


The Bush administration says suspected terrorists who were held at secret CIA prisons overseas should not be allowed to discuss interrogation techniques used by their captors.

In court papers filed last week with a federal judge in Washington, the U.S. Justice Department says the detainees must be prevented from revealing the techniques, even to their attorneys, because they are among the nation's most sensitive secrets. The administration argues the information could help terrorists develop tactics to counter the CIA's efforts to extract vital intelligence about potential terrorist attacks.

The administration filed the papers in response to efforts by a civil liberties group seeking access to one of 14 high-value terror suspects transferred to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in September.

The administration says detainees have no right to speak to an attorney under a new law signed by President Bush last month authorizing the use of military commissions to prosecute suspected terrorists.

report: http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-11-04-voa15.cfm


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[texpatriot2004]

1. Kick it for exposure nm

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14. ditto

[Vinca]

2. Sometimes you have to wonder just how low they can go.

What, exactly, do they plan on doing to the detainees who blab that they haven't done already?? How much more can this regime embarrass our nation?? I'm furious . . . again. Recommend.

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8. They are desperate for the full account of their abuses to remain secret

because they HAD to be approved at the HIGHEST levels of the Bush regime.

[merh]

3. Doesn't there exist a question as to whether or not GWB's

failure to sign the law before Congress adjourned in effect was a veto (pocket veto) and therefore the law the is NOT in effect?

Guess this case could resolve that question.

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4. Padilla has an active challenge to the law outside of the commission system

in regular criminal court.

Other challenges to the law are pending, mostly revolving around the attempts by the Bush regime to suppress defendant's testimony and that of any witnessess the court allows them.

[merh]

7. The law itself may not be in effect

GWB's failure to sign it before Congress adjourned may have in effect been a pocket veto. His arrogance may again, have gotten in the way of his purpose. He is such a dweb with some pretty stupid advisors.

[Tommy_J]

5. Kicking and recommending

Wouldn't it be great if the mainstream picked this up...

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9. you never know

shit happens :kick:

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. They gag tortured prisoners like they gag environmentalists.

When the Democrats come back into office, please include open government in the first 100 days? But be sure you give the documents to people who will share it with the public for the good of society.

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10. this law will have to be unwraveled in the courts

I think

[TexasLawyer]

11. "they are among the nation's most sensitive secrets..."

'cause these bastards don't want to go to the Hague for crimes against humanity.

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12. that's clearly the reason they were so desperate to have the law passed

to try to get Congress to cover THEIR asses. They pretended it was the agents they were defending, but THEY gave the orders.

[Straight Shooter]

13. Ding ding ding!

We have a first prize winner.

And plenty of runner-ups, too. :)

[Swamp Rat]

15. Trying to cover up crimes against humanity.

:eyes:

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16. not enough whitewash in the world

[Disturbed]

17. Detainees do not deserve any rights.

These Detainees are Terrorists. They are guilty of Terrorism. There is no need for any sort of Trial because they are guilty of Terrorist Acts. Why is this so hard to understand? The Glorious Leader has explained this. Why is anyone questioning The Glorious Leader? Anyone that questions The Glorious Leader needs to be arrested immediately because they are aiding these guilty Terrorists.

[lumpy]

18. Kick

Can't say this is unbelievable, but oh for God's sake! amazing how far the little dictaor has gone in reaching his fascistic goals.

[blogslut]

19. KICK

Bastards

[vixengrl]

20. God, these people are brazen! "most sensitive secrets"!

Putting nuclear secrets in Arabic on "the internets" is totally fine (even if it's "instant proliferation": just add materiel and experiment!), but discussing the treatment that terror detainess receive is beyond the pale because:

The administration argues the information could help terrorists develop tactics to counter the CIA's efforts to extract vital intelligence about potential terrorist attacks.

Counter-tactics, like, I dunno, lying to the interrogators or dying before they say anything--or my personal favorite (as in, no, I don't relish this thought), simply not having anything to say in the first place? It doesn't seem to me that these tactics wouldn't already be pretty well-known.

No, it seems to me the administration simply isn't eager to have their methods exposed, because they are criminal.