Thursday, March 19, 2009

Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent

"Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. "There are still innocent people there," Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, told The Associated Press. "Some have been there six or seven years.""

Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent

The U.S. has admitted to torturing innocent people.  We're not the shining beacon on the hill anymore, are we?


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