Wilkerson Would Testify Bush Knew Gitmo Prisoners Innocent

[Ian David]

Wilkerson Would Testify Bush Knew Gitmo Prisoners Innocent

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once declared that individuals captured by the US military in the aftermath of 9/11 and shipped off to the Guantanamo Bay prison facility represented the "worst of the worst."

"If you think of the people down there, these are people, all of whom were captured on a battlefield," Rumsfeld said back in 2002, "they're terrorists, trainers, bomb makers, recruiters, financiers ... would-be suicide bombers."

But Rumsfeld knowingly lied, according to a former top Bush administration official.

And so did then Vice President Dick Cheney when he said, also in 2002 and in dozens of public statements thereafter, that Guantanamo prisoners "are the worst of a very bad lot" and "dangerous" and "devoted to killing millions of Americans, innocent Americans, if they can, and they are perfectly prepared to die in the effort."

Now, in a sworn declaration obtained exclusively by Truthout, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell during George W. Bush's first term in office, claims that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and others knew the "vast majority" of prisoners captured in the so-called War on Terror were innocent and the administration refused to set them free once those facts were established because of the political repercussions that would have ensued.



More:
http://www.truthout.org/wilkerson-cheney-bush-aware-guantamamo-detainees-were-innocent58446

[flvegan]

1. So...when's the trial?

:eyes:

Not this admin, I fear.

[jimshoes]

2. They all lied like they would never, ever be held to account...

They figured that they had such a powerful grip on power that it was unnecessary to substantiate any of their lies, deceptions, half-truths, total fabrications, perjuries, distortions, falsehoods and if you're george dumbya, you could "disassemble" till you're heart's content. It appears they were correct.

[chill_wind]

3. K & R. Olbermann covering this now.