This is politics, even I, an unemployed kindergarten teacher know the facts; he can read published books, watch movies, talk to the forensic scientists, and listen to eye witnesses (70). Of course he will have to go to Guantánamo to hear them because now his administration is getting involved in a cover-up by having witnesses illegally imprisoned in a foreign country. Perhaps he will release them with compensation and tell the world they are part of a now open investigation and are being released.
I am going to mail this to President Obama. I heard that the politicians do not feel they are obligated to read emails, but are obligated to read hard copy mail.
Susan Hall

Thanks for getting in touch.

The whole thing was disgusting. The fact that there will be no justice is a forgone conclusion. Major world powers only get in trouble for human rights abuses after having lost a world war (like Germany). All Central Asia knew what sort of scum Dostum was, he was on the CIA payroll. Dostum is a psychopathic rapist, mass murdering piece of filth that props up our miserable little Mayor of Kabul, Karzai. Hence the US government and the US press will not say anything bad about him.

Take however many people they claim to have killed and double or triple the number and you might have an accurate number of POWs executed. Executing a POW is a MAJOR war crime. Why do you think Iraqi soldiers during the first US war on Iraq were surrendering to TV cameras? Because our glorious soldiers of democracy were executing them, even when they’d thrown down their weapons to surrender.

Of course our troops were involved. Those who think otherwise are living in a pollyanna-ish world where they see only what they want to see. What they want to see obviously doesn’t involve mass-murder.

And these were James Risen’s comments:
“Well, basically, what I tried to look at was, I tried not to get caught up in something that I think in the past has slowed down some of the efforts by journalists to look into this. I think in the past one of the mistakes some journalists made was to try and prove a direct involvement by the US personnel in the massacre itself. I frankly don’t believe that any US military personnel were involved in the massacre. And, you know, US Special Forces troops who were traveling with Dostum have long maintained that they knew nothing about this. And, you know, so I tried not to go down that road.”

I agree that he should have been challenged. While it may well be that US forces were not involved in the journey itself or the arrival at the prison, the Tipton Three explained (as I described it in The Guantanamo Files), that they “waited for another day until their transportation was arranged, and in their case the container lorries came at night, and the whole sordid spectacle was illuminated by spotlights operated by American Special Forces soldiers,” which makes it pretty clear that US forces were involved.