Remember, President Obama ordered them closed. The CIA was never going to follow that order, so it needed an excuse to disobey the President's order. Mr. Ghailani's new defense team's motion did that. Judge Kaplan did not even need to grant the motion, as the government complied with the request without opposition, seemingly to help protect the defendant. The real reason the government acquiesced was to protect itself and its prison system. I should mention that the motion Mr. Ghailani's new defense team filed was largely cut and pasted from a draft motion Mr. Ghailani's lead military attorney, Colonel Jeff Colwell, tried to get me to file in the same matter. I refused, much to Colonel Colwell's (and his bosses at the CIA's) consternation.
Government appointed defense counsel are working to thwart the process by aggressively eliminating the detainees' access to independent attorneys, by keeping the detainees in the dark about what is happening in their cases, by defending the cases on grounds that will make it look like they are putting up a fight, but which will never prevail, and by keeping their superiors informed of their efforts. The Office of the Chief Defense Counsel for the Office of Military Commissions is a cesspool of government hacks bent on protecting the country by protecting their clients in a way ensured to bring about favored results.
Salim Hamdan's case was a perfect example. Mr. Hamdan's verdict, which was staged, was engineered to (1) provide an excuse for holding him so long, (2) afford the government an explanation to release him soon, as he had no business being at Guantanamo Bay, and (3) to embarrass an attorney in Washington by the name of Neal Katyal, who led Mr. Hamdan's defense before the Supreme Court. The government accomplished all of these goals, although unfortunately, Professor Katyal, who now holds a high government position, has never paid a price for his malfeasance in Mr. Hamdan's case.
TP: That was a very powerful statement. Where is the evidence for a CIA prison system dating back to the 1950s? How do you know that anonymous detainees in the CIA prison system are executed if "they are executed and no one ever knows about it"?
You said that you were removed as Mr. Ghailani's counsel. Then the legal team that replaced you filed a motion to keep the CIA prisons open, ostensibly to "preserve evidence of Mr. Ghailani's treatment for mitigation purposes". However; "The real reason was to provide the government cover in its effort to keep these prisons open."
How do you know the real motivation of Mr. Ghailani's legal team, and how do you know the real reason for this motion was to keep the CIA prisons open?
SF: The CIA has the evidence regarding its prison system and the system's tortured history (pun intended). I suggest you contact the CIA to secure the evidence. I suggest a FOIA request. I'm sure the Agency looks forward to FOIA requests.
The CIA executes its evidence. The executioners, and those who order the executions, know about them. My evidence of my claim about the executions is buried at numerous places through the four corners of the globe. If you want the exact coordinates of the burial plots, I suggest you contact the CIA (see above).
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