{"id":195861,"date":"2008-06-09T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/09\/new-gitmo-revalation-pentagon-directed-destruction-of-evidence\/"},"modified":"2008-06-09T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T04:01:00","slug":"new-gitmo-revalation-pentagon-directed-destruction-of-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/09\/new-gitmo-revalation-pentagon-directed-destruction-of-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gitmo Revalation: Pentagon Directed Destruction of Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The operation manual that the Pentagon gave interrogators directed them to, &#8220;destroy their written notes in case of being summoned to testify regarding alleged ill-treatment of detainees&#8221;, see<a href=\"http:\/\/www.granma.cu\/ingles\/2008\/junio\/lun9\/24pentagono.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/08\/AR2008060802344.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7443395.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In an affidavit signed by [Omar Khadr Defense Attorney] Kuebler, the manual is quoted as saying, &#8220;The mission has legal and political issues that may lead to interrogators being called to testify, keeping the number of documents with interrogation information to a minimum can minimize certain legal issues.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This flies in the face of every tenet of modern law and jurisprudence.<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring the fact that Khadr was a 15 year old child at the time of the event, and should therefore be treated for trauma as a child soldier, the idea that the operations manual calls for destruction of evidence on the theory that it might prove inconvenient is outrageous.<\/p>\n<p>The person who wrote this manual should be jailed, not just fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operation manual that the Pentagon gave interrogators directed them to, &#8220;destroy their written notes in case of being summoned to testify regarding alleged ill-treatment of detainees&#8221;, seehere, here, and here. In an affidavit signed by [Omar Khadr Defense Attorney] Kuebler, the manual is quoted as saying, &#8220;The mission has legal and political issues that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1032,972,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-justice","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195861"}],"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=195861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}