April 9: According to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former President George Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld knew that many of the detainees held at the prison at Guantanamo Bay were innocent, and did nothing to stop their torture.
George W. Bush 'knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent'
State Secrets Privilege
Detainee Treatment Act
What the Detainee Treatment Act Really Means for Guantanamo Detainees
We as a Country are already going to live with the results of the extremely failed policies done in Our Names for the coming decades, but if we don't try and minimize that blowback by seeking the Justice we supposedly espouse the potential for that blowback grows even more dangerous and destructive!
Some, like Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, recognize the implications for this country and it's citizens, some!
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