Guardian: Binyam Mohamed torture evidence 'hidden from Obama'

[deminks]

What the hell?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/11/binyam-mohamed-release-torture-letter

US defence officials are preventing Barack Obama from seeing evidence that a former British resident held in Guantánamo Bay has been tortured, the prisoner's lawyer said last night, as campaigners and the Foreign Office prepared for the man's release in as little as a week.

Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the legal charity Reprieve, which represents Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed, sent Obama evidence of what he called "truly mediaeval" abuse but substantial parts were blanked out so the president could not read it.

In the letter to the president , Stafford Smith urges him to order the disclosure of the evidence.

Stafford Smith tells Obama he should be aware of the "bizarre reality" of the situation. "You, as commander in chief, are being denied access to material that would help prove that crimes have been committed by US personnel. This decision is being made by the very people who you command."

It is understood US defence officials might have censored the evidence to protect the president from criminal liability or political embarrassment.

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Bush burrowers, hiding letters, Petraeus leaking false stories, what the hell is going on here?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. what the hell indeed?

very strange

[deminks]

2. See additional discussion at DKos

here:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/11/171221/781/367/696296

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. This happened to JFK - his own staff and military blindsided him

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and then . .

yeah . .

that .

[ProgressIn2008]

4. If this is true, it's in the Guardian and out there now. What's Obama going to do about it? nt

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. First thing I would do is take a trip to the

Pentagon and fire everyone in a suit there