{"id":193162,"date":"2009-01-14T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/14\/its-official-its-torture\/"},"modified":"2009-01-14T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T01:54:00","slug":"its-official-its-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/14\/its-official-its-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official, It&#8217;s Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/13\/AR2009011303372.html\">Bush administration official Susan Crawford<\/a>, the convening authority for the military kangaroo court at Gitmo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We tortured [Mohammed al-]Qahtani,&#8221; said Susan J. Crawford, in her first interview since being named convening authority of military commissions by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in February 2007. &#8220;His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that&#8217;s why I did not refer the case&#8221; for prosecution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now could we <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">please<\/span> get Barack Obama to assign Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says Bush administration official Susan Crawford, the convening authority for the military kangaroo court at Gitmo: &#8220;We tortured [Mohammed al-]Qahtani,&#8221; said Susan J. Crawford, in her first interview since being named convening authority of military commissions by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in February 2007. &#8220;His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}