Comments on: Walid bin Attash to Be Denied Day in Court because al-Nashiri Was Tortured?

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:10:41 +0000

Way epu’d but Greenwald in an update links to a Booman post here and Booman spells out a lot of other info and evidence that is available. So the drivel about not being able to make a case without using tortured statements is sounding even more drivel-ly and the “don’t want to have a trial that will expose our war crimes” is looking more solid.

By: esseff44

esseff44 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:01:21 +0000

Yes and a lot of those associations date from the fight against the Russians which the US backed at the time. The other common association is staying at a guest house for foreigners where AQ or Taliban have also stayed. Many of these ties are thinner than spider webs.

By: esseff44

esseff44 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:47:32 +0000

Ah, yes, another one of the wunderkinder that can be in so many places at one time. He’s one of those that must be a terrorist because he was captured wearing a Casio watch just like mine and that of hundreds of thousands of other people which is on sale the world over for less than twenty dollars and lasts ten years without a battery change. That’s what they call evidence. I cannot understand how the people who write these accusations up don’t see how foolish they look. It’s like the darkest comedy one could imagine. “money” in translator’s dialect=”tomatoes” in detainees dialect…..so he names all the vegetable stalls when asked where he got the money.

At least this one has finally been released from GTMO, but it looks like he is still being held in Chad.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:03:25 +0000

Book Salon up at the Mothership with Nicholas Schmidle’s To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan hosted by Russ Wellen

By: Jkat

Jkat — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:00:28 +0000

yah .. but to paraphrase a “famous statesman” from the past: “how many divisions does the blogosphere have ” ??

#34 ..our main problem is there is no such thing as “covert ops” anymore .. eventually it all gets loose ..and btw..i’m just making an observation .. not advocating a course of action ..

By: DLoerke

DLoerke — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:06:25 +0000

Now that’s a GOOD idea. Better to either lock him forever in solitary or shoot the SOB….

By: sporkovat

sporkovat — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:06:10 +0000

I know Glenn Greenwald has been a little caustic lately, maybe making (D) partisans a little uncomfortable sometimes, but he posts on the same issue today:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g.....index.html

including this great pullquote:

There is one point in particular I really want to highlight about all of this:
There has now emerged a very clear — and very disturbing — pattern whereby Obama is willing to use legal mechanisms and recognize the authority of other branches only if he’s assured that he’ll get the outcome he wants.

the outcome often being keeping people in cages for life because Dick Cheney or George Bush once pronounced them ‘terrists’.

Hope-n-Change!®

By: nrafter530

nrafter530 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:01:46 +0000

Could you imagine the outrage on the blogsphere if THAT happened?

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:43:49 +0000

Presidential power is a one-way street. No one who wants the job would ever give up a scinitilla of power already there, and will try to get more.

By: Jkat

Jkat — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:41:08 +0000

you know .. in the old days .. if we had someone like this .. who we know is guilty ..and who can’t be brought to trial ..and who .. if released will continue to be a danger to us .. there was always the option the bastard would get killed while “trying to escape” ..

just sayin’ …