It just never ends...
On Feb 11, 9:27*pm, HK wrote:
*From the Guardian...
Binyam Mohamed torture evidence 'hidden from Obama'
Letter to president about Binyam Mohamed was blanked out, say
campaigners as they prepare for Guantánamo prisoner's release to UK
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 [PDF] , 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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