One interesting aspect of Ron Suskind's revelations about former Iraq Intelligence Chief Tahir Jalil Habbush was the urgent need on the part of the Busheviks to keep Habbush quiet so no one would know that he told us before the invasion that Saddam had no WMD's.

Habbush did nothing wrong, and in fact cooperated completely with the U.S. But Bush kept him hidden in Jordan (even though the only person he(*)had to fear, Saddam Hussein,(*)was also in U.S. hands)(*)and paid him $5 million in "hush money."

This week we also learned of another prisoner who cooperated fully with the U.S., but was also locked away - apparently for the sole purpose of keeping his story out of the media. His name is(*)Salim Ahmed Hamdan,(*)better known as(*)Osama Bin Laden's driver.

Hamdan was acquitted on charges of actual terrorism (despite John McCain's lie) and convicted only on "material support" for terrorism. And even though he could have been sentenced to life in prison, a military jury gave him a light sentence of 6 years with credit for the 5.5 years he already served. Why such a light sentence?

sources familiar with secret testimony for the defense given July 31 said the information revealed in that testimony likely angered the jurors.

Two senior Army Special Forces officers told a closed session of the trial of an "opportunity" that Hamdan had offered them in Afghanistan in the first weeks after his Nov. 24, 2001, capture. That chance was "squandered" by the government, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian Mizer, a defense lawyer, said in his closing argument before Wednesday's verdict.

Speculation has focused on a blown opportunity to capture bin Laden, as Hamdan might have known his whereabouts.

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Holy crap -(*)a "blown opportunity to capture bin Laden"??? Shouldn't this be the biggest news story of the year???

The details of the "opportunity" are being kept strictly secret. But it's not hard to imagine how bin Laden's driver could have either led us directly to bin Laden, or helped us figure out how to find him.

So how - and why - was this opportunity squandered???

Obviously the Busheviks don't want to tell the media, because they might be tried for treason. But why would Hamdam hesitate to tell the media what he willingly told U.S. interrogators?

The government case against Hamdan also was based almost entirely on information the defendant gave willingly in interviews with at least 40 U.S. government interrogators in the first two years of his captivity. Defense lawyer Charlie Swift said that information was of vital importance yet ultimately used against the cooperative captive.

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In other words, Hamdam sounds very much like Habbush - someone with personal firsthand knowledge of our most hated enemy, who cooperated fully with U.S. interrogators. In both cases, there was no need to lock them up or punish them in any way.

But in both cases, Bush wants them hidden away so they won't tell the media what they told the U.S. government - because their stories would lead first to the impeachment of George W. Bush, and then to his indictment on war crimes and treason.

 



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No, Clinton did.

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