we all know where this is going..........
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3173646douglas9 (207 posts) Fri Feb-08-08 07:20 AM
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U.S. loses prison camp records of bin Laden's driver
Advertisements [?]Source: Reuters
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The U.S. military has lost a year's worth of records describing the Guantanamo interrogation and confinement of Osama bin Laden's driver, a prosecutor said at the Yemeni captive's war court hearing on Thursday.
Lawyers for the driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, asked for the records to support their argument that prolonged isolation and harassment at the Guantanamo prison have mentally impaired him and compromised his ability to aid in his defense on war crimes charges.
"All known records have been produced with the exception of the 2002 Gitmo records," one of the prosecutors, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Timothy Stone, told the court. "They can't find it."
He said the military was still looking for the records kept at the remote U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba, which he referred to by its nickname.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN045963...
Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 07:27 AM
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1. Dog eats prison camp records of bin Laden's driver...
"Spot is normally such a good puppy, but we left him alone for the first time and imagine our surprise."
KansDem (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 10:49 AM
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28. Well, then just waterboard the dog!
Make him bark out what was in those prison camp records! Dammit! I want to see some waterboarding! NOW!!!
dbt (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 07:32 AM
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2. How conveeeeeenient!
And who do we suppose could have been responsible for such a handy little occurence? Could it be... SATAN?!?!?
drm604 (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 08:37 AM
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6. Can we please start holding some people in contempt?
Can we please have a justice system in this country?
Gonnuts (318 posts) Fri Feb-08-08 11:14 AM
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31. No
Not when you have a Mob Lawyer as AG.
For those that didn't catch Mukasey's testifying this week he's not pursuing ANYTHING, Mukasey said that he would not investigate torture, or warrant-less spying, he would not enforce contempt citations and he would treat Justice Department opinions as providing immunity for crimes.
We DON'T have a justice system. We have a protection division for a criminal organization formally known as our government
sofa king (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 08:44 AM
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7. Make that four waterboarding cases.
Oh there will be much waterboarding in the camps
Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 08:55 AM
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8. Boy there sure is some bad record keeping in the Bush regime.
Very sloppy. Billions of dollars disappeared in Baghdad. Millions of emails just vanished. Oops we erased the videos we were told not to erase. 'Interrogation' records? Gosh where could they be?
paparush (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 09:09 AM
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10. Emails, Video Tapes, Inmate Records - Watch for a large fire coming soon..
Ala the Vice President's Eisenhower Executive Office back in December.
Nixon would shake his head in shame at the shabby nature of this regime's criminal behavior.
mtnester (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 11:06 AM
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29. Jeezuz Christ they will have to burn down the White House, Camp David
and Cheney's bunker to cover everything they will need to burn
momster (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 09:11 AM
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11. Do They Even Expect Us
to believe that? Or do they put out these bullshit stories *knowing* we're going to scoff and they just don't care? Why do they even bother? For all the difference it makes, they could just say "we got 'em and we're not going to show 'em to you...whatcha goin' to do about it, Congress?" This is government for thugs by thugs and the 'cops' are either in on it, blackmailed, or too scared to care.
drm604 (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 10:14 AM
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20. No, they don't expect us to believe it.
But from their position that's better than the consequences of actually turning over those records. They've already lost all credibility and now are simply trying to avoid the legal consequences of their past actions, public perception be damned.
Nothing Illegal has been done
rateyes (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 09:34 AM
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13. Whoever wrote that article for Reuters should be ashamed of
him/herself. The first sentence should read, "The U.S. military CLAIMS TO HAVE lost a year's worth of records..."
The first sentence states the situation as if it's fact. We all know differently.
This doesn't pass either the giggle or the smell test
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Karmageddon (596 posts) Fri Feb-08-08 09:40 AM
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14. Riiiiiiiight. They were keeping the records in the same place as those 10 million emails
Bin Laden's driver - arguably the most important prisoner they're holding at Gitmo, and they lost his records. Yeah, that's credible.
Even more credible is that they lost "only" those records from 2002, and not the rest of them. I mean, it makes so much more sense to organize prison records by year than by prisoner.
jimshoes (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 09:43 AM
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15. I want the whole past 7 years stricken from
American history as it is invalid. I want everything done by this administration declared null and void and every bit of money spent, repaid out of their personal assets. I want the bush presidency erased from the history of the United States. A bigger criminal enterprise has never soiled the known universe.
Ahem..............Clinton
Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-08-08 10:20 AM
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21. I'm sure those records proved he was a driver.
He was OBL's placeholder in the charade. When the time came that this joke of an administration had to show their hand..they folded. Just like Padilla and his "lost" tapes. The whole "war on terror" is a joke. When we have floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes that kill 100's of Americans and cause billions of damage at home, please explain why we are spending 30 billion/moo nth in Iraq fighting Iraqi's who don't want us there? This has been a 7 year, for-profit Republican scam that's been perpetrated on the American people.
what an idiot
JBoy (751 posts) Fri Feb-08-08 10:36 AM
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23. So start court-marshalling whoever "lost" these records
That's right, if Corporal Jones was responsible for keeping the records at Gitmo that now can't be found, charge him. Maybe faced with some prison time, he'll remember that Sgt Smith took the records from him. Who will then tell them that Captain Jackson asked him for them, who will say he did it on the orders of Colonel Brown, who will finally testify that he got a midnight phone call from Dick Cheney
