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Jane Mayer: The CIA and DOD Lied to the Red Cross

Suzanne Ito,
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April 14, 2009

On Saturday, about the revelations of the (PDF). Segura asked if the report contained any surprises for Mayer. It did:

One of the things that caught my eye last night was that its clear that the CIA and I think you'd have to guess the Department of Defense lied to the Red Cross. They told the Red Cross when it visited Guant獺namo [in 2002] that it had seen all of the detainees. But what the report says is that some of the detainees some of the high-value detainees realized when they were finally sent to Guant獺namo in 2006 that theyd been there before. They were there. And yet the Red Cross was not allowed to see them. The Red Cross was told theyd seen everybody.

So the CIA and DOD lied to the Red Cross. There were some hidden prisoners in Guant獺namo. That's an overt act; lying to the Red Cross, hiding prisoners from them. So, thats interesting to me.

These so-called high-value detainees, all former CIA prisoners, five of whom have been charged with crimes relating to 9/11, include Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Abd Al-Rahim Hussain Mohammed Al-Nashiri. Attorneys from the 勛圖眻畦's John Adams Project worked with under-resourced military lawyers to provide legal counsel for several of the Guant獺namo detainees including al-Nashiri during the military commissions process.

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