Lawyer: CIA threatened to prosecute if suspects ties revealed

[TacticalPeek]

Lawyer: CIA threatened to prosecute if suspects ties revealed

The Associated Press

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- The CIA threatened to prosecute lawyers in the case of a civilian accused of beating an Afghani prisoner if they revealed the man's ties to the agency, a former defense lawyer said.

Both prosecutors and defense lawyers were bound to secrecy, Gerald Beaver of Fayetteville wrote to Thomas McNamara, the court-appointed lawyer for defendant David Passaro, in a July 30 letter.

"No information regarding the agency with which he was affiliated was to be mentioned in any court pleadings, and any such mention would lead to criminal prosecution of the persons responsible," Beaver wrote.

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"I was dismayed to discover this had occurred, and was even more dismayed to discover later that afternoon on the Internet that the indictment returned in the case had identified David by his true name and had alleged that he was affiliated with a particular governmental agency, an affiliation which I had been informed was top secret and the disclosure of which would lead to criminal prosecution," Beaver wrote.



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snagged at http://first-draft.com (Oops! Government Exposes Their Own Cover-up In Detainee Death Case) - :)

[seventhson]

1. That is just f*cked up

Bush and his asshole minions have the Constitution in tatters.

[Tight_rope]

7. That is Fuck up...Bush can out CIA but a lawyers can't do their jobs...

[lottie244]

2. How to manage a Police State 101

And no one of consequence seems to be outraged. The media in the US is totally useless and really is a pawn of this administration. We won't get our country back until we get rid of them all...down to the third generation. It will take three elections to do the job.

[shockingelk]

3. Well, compare to the Plame case

Similar, at least.

[aquart]

4. Not to mention making live bait of the Pakistani informer.

<http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/080804Z.shtml>

Pakistan: U.S. Blew Undercover Operation
MSNBC

Friday 06 August 2004

Islamabad, Pakistan - The al-Qaida suspect named by U.S. officials as the source of information that led to this week's terrorist alerts was working undercover, Pakistani intelligence sources said Friday, putting an end to the sting operation and forcing Pakistan to hide the man in a secret location.

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[TacticalPeek]

5. Kick.

:kick:

[saigon68]

6. Yikes

a kick

[struggle4progress]

8. another kick

:kick: