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Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Obama DoJ Refuses Cooperation on Polish "CIA Black Site" Investigation

Obama has bent over backwards eschewing investigations of the vast plain of Bush-era wrong doing, flopped about like a dying fish on the release of torture documentation, until finally flopping down dead no.   As a few choice Wikilieaks cables have shown, his "administration" has been equally intent on preventing anyone else from investigating the Bush regime.  After strong-arming both the Spanish and the Germans over their nascent investigations into rendition and torture at Gitmo, the Obama DoJ has been ordered to refuse cooperation with Polish authorities in their investigation of reported CIA administered "black sites."
The U.S. Department of Justice has rejected a request from prosecutors in Warsaw for assistance in the investigation into the alleged CIA prisons in Poland, where captives claim they were tortured.

On 18 March, the Prosecutor’s Office of Appeal in Warsaw filed a motion for legal assistance from the US Department of Justice into the probe.

On 7 October, reports the PAP news agency, the US informed prosecutors that the motion had been rejected on the basis of the international Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters and that the U.S. authorities consider the matter “to be closed”.

The revelation that the US will not be cooperating with the investigation into the alleged black site, thought to have been in northern Poland near the Szymany air base, comes after a second man followed al-Qaeda suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in asking prosecutors in Warsaw to look into his case.

"According to the information we have, Abu Zubaydah was one of those people detained and interrogated by the CIA somewhere on the territory of Poland," Polish lawyer Bartlomiej Jankowski told journalists in the Polish capital earlier this month.

Both Zubaydah and Nashiri are both currently being held at the U.S. military jail at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Despite denials from former president Aleksander Kwasniewski and former prime minister Leszek Miller that they knew of the CIA activity in Poland, air traffic control in warsaw published a report stating that at least six CIA flights had landed at a disused military air base in northern Poland in 2003.

Two aircraft, a Boeing 737 and a Gulfstream V, were US-registered and previously known to be part of CIA operations.

Not that Eric Holder would need much direction in the matter. He has proven his mettle in shoveling the legalese leaves on top of the international shit pile that might rightly be described as "an international kidnapping-torture regime, knowingly and, with malice aforethought, intentionally authorized by the highest levels of government."
Posted in 4GW, IO & Intel by Anderson at 1:00 PMPermalink

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