Rumsfeld Admits to "Ghosting" Detainee (Tenet admits too)

[donsu]

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/6120


U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that he "ghosted" a detainee, meaning that he made the decision to hold a prisoner without keeping any records of the fact.

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Following a catalog of evidence of other crimes sanctioned by top Bush Administration officials, the report reads:

"We also have an admission that George Tenet specifically approved the ghosting in Iraq of a specific individual, and that Mr. Rumsfeld admitted to approving of ghosting of detainees as a special matter. During a press conference in June 2004, Secretary Rumsfeld confirmed not only that he was asked by CIA Director George Tenet to hide a specific detainee, but also that he hid the detainee and that the detainee was lost in the system for more than eight months:

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This is the Secretary of Defense publicly stating that the Director of the CIA told him not to register a prisoner with the Red Cross, and that he obeyed, and that several months later the prisoner was still not registered.

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and you know they tortured them. where are the cops?

[texpatriot2004]

1. It's evil, it used to be UnAmerican and it's NOT acceptable! nm

[DBoon]

2. The US gets more Orwellian every day

It was always at night -- the arrests invariably happened at night. The sudden jerk out of sleep, the rough hand shaking your shoulder, the lights glaring in your eyes, the ring of hard faces round the bed. In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest. People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.

- 1984

[QuettaKid]

3. Does anyone know if there is a news blackout

or something over at the Hague? I mean WHAT is it going to take before war crimes trials can start? Can they hand out indictments or something....if for nothing other than symbolic purposes, just to wake people up!?!?!?

[Arkansas Granny]

4. And the only excuse they ever use is "9/11 changed everything".

They seem to feel that this statement can absolve them of criminal activities. They claim the have to do it to protect our freedoms and safety. What a load of hogwash!

[neweurope]

5. War criminals.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[donkeyotay]

6. Someone help me here. I thought the original torture memo claimed

that war powers put the president above the law. Now, you mean Rummy is above the law, too? Who else? How far down does it extend? Does it reach Pvt. England?