Comments on: Hiding Torture And Freeing Binyam Mohamed From Guantánamo

By: Liberal Conspiracy » A war-criminal comes to London

Liberal Conspiracy » A war-criminal comes to London — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:37:58 +0000

[...] relationship between the U.S. and U.K.“. As relationships go, that’s one of the most wholly unhealthy since Caligula first hit puberty. Fox, Gove, Osborne, Hague and Grayling all sit on the [...]

By: UK Judges Order Release Of Details About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed By US Agents by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:34:38 +0000

[...] a result — unaware that the government’s assertions had been challenged — the judges issued a fourth judgment on February 4, 2009, in which, yet again, they reluctantly defended the government’s position. [...]

By: Will Eric Holder Be The Anti-Torture Hero? by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:45:51 +0000

[...] source of tension was the Justice Department’s apparently unilateral decision, in February, to contest a lawsuit brought by the ACLU against Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., a Boeing subsidiary known in human rights [...]

By: turning the page on tyranny « seeking spirit

turning the page on tyranny « seeking spirit — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:17:57 +0000

[...] those same lines, my Administration is also confronting challenges to what is known as the “State Secrets” privilege. This is a doctrine that allows the government to challenge legal cases involving secret programs. [...]

By: Walwyn M. Trezise

Walwyn M. Trezise — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:10:49 +0000

Waterboarding – Smorgasborging. Mr. Wothington you have not done your homework. But you may be forgiven You fail to understand American law. In that you stand with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, the 6 legal dwarfs, (who believed that by preparing silly quasi-legal memos they could build a “Wall of Gold” around the junta and thereby insure the future of their wealth), along with any number of other Bushees who are complicit.
See: OPINION: MOHAMED; et al, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. JEPPESEN DATAPLAN, INC.,
Defendant-Appellee, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Intervenor-Appellee. (Incidentally, Mr. Worthington, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is not some po-dunk court. It is one of the three most respected appellate courts in the United States, next only in priority to the United States Supreme Court. Its justices and its opinions are not to be taken lightly). I cite the opinion because you can read it in its entirety if you make the effort to look it up on the ACLU internet site. It has to do with State Secrets, something you and your government apparently believe the United States possessing in abundance.
These are interesting times. The New York Times and Washington Post have done their best to keep the American public ignorant of what this was all about. Water boarding was made to sound like a dip in the pool. Well, Worthington, Old Sod, as I believe you say, the cat is out of the bag. The only people left in the dark were the people. We didn’t know they had done it to some guy 89 straight times. We didn’t know that they needed a physician next to the guy, taking blood-oxygen content tests to make sure the victim was still alive, while the CIA was trying to asphyxiate him. Nor did we known of all the sexual taboos these homo-erotic CIA cut-up, those secret agent men and women were expending upon tactics they call torture. Now I grant you that the American public really seldom pays attention to matters like this. They may be like your young lady reader who thought Mohamed’s life was in danger. Not so. He’s been out and about in London for some time now. This is a civil suit for damages brought on this behalf of Mohamed by the hated American Civil Liberties Union, of which I am, as the Bushies like to say, “a card carrying member.” It’s really against Boeing Aircraft, whose identity is hidden behind its subsidiary, Jeppson Dataplan. Yes, sometimes U.S. law is a little strange. And if your Young Lady reads the opinion, as I suggested she do, she may not conclude that Mohamed won. Indeed, the dred, distained ACLU achieved a great victory before the court, which, in fact, breathed life again into Mohamed’s case. Not good news for Mr. Bush and his minions. Obama will understand. He is, you should not ever forget, a Chicago politician.
I have only two questions for you, Mr. Worthington. I cannot understand how a country as sanctimonious as Sweden could have gotten themselves mixed up in such an outright felonious sadistic scheme as this kind of torture with Bush and the CIA. What ever happened to their righteous
neutrality while Hitler was moving heaven and earth to exterminate the Jews? What ever happened to their brains?
And, Mr. Worthington, would you please explain to me why your foreign secretary, David Miliband, went to any effort whatsoever, “not to make public a summary of the evidence because the US government had threatened to re-evaluate its intelligence sharing relationship with the UK, which “could inflict on the citizens of the United Kingdom a very considerable increase in the dangers they face at a time when a serious terrorist threat still pertains.” How in the world could a guy this dumb get where he’s at. Is he so stupid as to believe that the ever-sensitive young George W. Bush gave a wit or, worse yet, had any idea who or what David Miliband was, other than a man with a very silly name. We’re talking Young Bush here, the ultimate arrogant, illiterate aristocrat. And, sir, why would any soul on earth be interested in “secrets” of the CIA. Pull yourself together, Mr. Worthington, and come out from under the rock where you’ve been living for eight past years. Disabuse yourself of this notion that the CIA gets or keeps any secrets. Read, Mr. Worthington. Read “Legacy of Ashes. The History of the CIA,” by Tim Weiner, (Doubleday, 2007. New York, London, Toronto,Sydney, Auckland). Doubleday went to a lot of trouble to make sure you received the word of what I am about to tell you. Our CIA, Mr. Worthington, doesn’t get, or keep secrets. They just electro-shock people’s private parts until the people tell them what they want to hear! Walwyn M. Trezise, B.S., J.D., retired, Dubois, Wyoming 82513

By: Justice Extends to Bagram, Guantánamo’s Dark Mirror « From The Wilderness

Justice Extends to Bagram, Guantánamo’s Dark Mirror « From The Wilderness — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:31:09 +0000

[...] the state secrets privilege to quash a lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen for its role as the CIA’s travel agent in a case brought by a number of prisoners subjected to “extraordinary rendition,” although [...]

By: Justice extends to Bagram, Guantánamo’s Dark Mirror by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:47:04 +0000

By: Justice Extends to Bagram by Andy Worthington -- Antiwar.com

Justice Extends to Bagram by Andy Worthington -- Antiwar.com — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:02:52 +0000

[...] the state-secrets privilege to quash a lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen for its role as the CIA’s travel agent in a case brought by a number of prisoners subjected to "extraordinary rendition," [...]

By: Andy Worthington: Justice Extends To Bagram, Guantanamo’s Dark Mirror | Dailycensored.com

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:57:55 +0000

By: Andy Worthington: Justice Extends To Bagram, Guantanamo’s Dark Mirror | BlackNewsTribune.com

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:48:05 +0000