Sunday, February 15, 2015

Truest statement of the week II

The fact that a CIA operative has found his way onto the defense team representing his former victims speaks volumes about the military commission process. Taken in context, the presence of a CIA spy on the defense team fits the show trial character of the proceedings as a whole, which have been discredited time and again by interference with the defendants’ right to counsel.

-- Ed Hightower, "Interpreter for 9/11 defendants at Guantanamo Bay was a CIA agent" (WSWS).





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