Of War, Wikileaks, and Weasels

Julian Assange and his collection of fellow weasels over at Wikileaks have done it again. This time, they’ve released over 700 classified military documents containing never-before-seen detailed accounts of the men who are locked up at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba.

These new leaked documents study the history of the dentainees and also explore the uneasy relationships between the Islamic Terrorists and their jailers.

The “evidence” provided by these new documents is sure to provide a false sense of  hope and leverage to the Far Left in their crusade to encourage their ideological brother, the President of the United States, to close down Gitmo.

The documents contain everything from a detailed account to what the terrorists to an account of their personal illnesses, ranging from hepatitus to depression. They even contain years of the detained enemies of America’s comments about one another.

One thing that most of the 172 remaining prisoners have in common is the fact that they been rated as a “high risk” of posing a threat to the United States and its allies if released without adequate rehabilitation and supervision.

However, unfortunately for President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) and his Far Left base, the records also document how an even larger number of the prisoners who have left Gitmo, about a third of the 600 already transferred to other countries, were also labeled “high risk”…and then, they were freed or passed to the custody of other governments.

The other problem for the Wackadoodle Left is the fact that there are no gratuitous stories of torture, that can be used by them (and Obama) as leverage for closing Gitmo. Several of the imprisoned terrorists, though, are cited as lying about being subjected to abuse.

I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

Per newyorktimes.com:

The military analysts’ files provide new details about the most infamous of their prisoners, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Sometime around March 2002, he ordered a former Baltimore resident to don a suicide bomb vest and carry out a “martyrdom” attack against Pervez Musharraf, then Pakistan’s president, according to the documents. But when the man, Majid Khan, got to the Pakistani mosque that he had been told Mr. Musharraf would visit, the assignment turned out to be just a test of his “willingness to die for the cause.”

Obama and his administration all condemned the publication of the classified documents, which were released by Julian Assange and his pack of weasels last year.

According to the White House, an administration task force set up in January 2009 reviewed the prisoner assessments released in these documents, and in some cases came to different conclusions. Because of this, the White House says that the documents published by The Times may not represent the government’s current view of detainees at Guantánamo.

There were three Top Secret Assessment Documents released in this bunch.  The first, Assessment of Afghanistan Travels and Islamic Duties as they Pertain to Interrogation, begins by stating:

Islamic religious leaders used their influence to encourage men to travel to Afghanistan to train and fight. To prevent interrogators and analysts from obtaining incriminating information from him, the detainee uses a variety of counter-interrogation techniques, some supported by his religious indoctrination. Detainees that claim a religious motivation for traveling to Afghanistan are often providing an accurate, but incomplete account of their recruitment. Mujahideen that traveled to Afghanistan following the attacks of 11 September 2001 did so with the knowledge that Usama Bin Laden and Al-Qaida were the likely perpetrators of the attack.

The other two documents are Threat MatrixesThe Executive Summary of these two documents states:

Below are indicators used in JTF-GTMO detainee assessments to determine a detainee”s capabilities and intentions to pose a terrorist threat if the detainee were given the opportunity. The indicators are not all-inclusive and are written primarily with the JTF-GTMO detainee in mind, though they can be tailored to other theaters. These indicators are used in assessments in concert with each other, and need to be read in the context in which they are placed within an assessment. While some individual indicators may be sufficient alone to provide an accurate assessment of the detainee”s threat, others may require additional indicators or multiple occurrences of the same indicator for reliability and confidence. In all, the indicators are designed to point to the threat a detainee would pose if he were to be released from custody, and the intelligence that a detainee potentially possesses, not as evidence to prove a detainee’s guilt or innocence.

Remember this? From thehill.com, posted 1/22/08:

President Obama signed executive orders this morning reversing Bush administration detainee interrogation practices and requiring the prison at Guantanamo Bay to be closed one year from now.

As expected, Obama ordered a review process for Guantanamo detainees, with the goal of releasing, transferring to other nations, or prosecuting the 245 detainees currently held at the facility. Obama largely left the question of how to prosecute detainees unanswered, though recommended that federal courts or regular military courts would be preferable. Military tribunals with revised authority could also be used.

The CIA will also close its network of secret prisons under Obama’s order. Obama prohibited the agency from operating detention facilities in the future.

The president effectively banned torture, requiring the military and CIA to adhere to the Army Field Manual, abide by the Geneva Convention, and allow the Red Cross access to detainees. He also sweepingly nullified all memos and legal opinions on interrogation from the Bush Justice Department issued after Sept. 11, 2001, some of which caused outcry among opponents of torture when they were uncovered.

Didn’t happen, did it?  Neither did the  proposed New York City Federal Court  Dog ‘n Pony Show Trial of Khalid Shaikh Muhammed.

Remember, Obama knew about these documents last year.

Sunlight is a great disinfectant.

Even if it comes from a bunch of weasels.


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