Cheney lies: Knows that most in Guantanamo are innocent

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The AP’s Andrew O. Selsky just posted a story potentially devastating to the credibility of Dick Cheney and the Bush administration’s Guantanamo policy.

The headline, by itself is an indictment of everything Cheney has done, and as important, everything he has said recently about Obama’s decision to close the Cuban base: "Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent."

Quoting Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican and former chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, it appears that there are about 24 actual terrorists in Guantanamo. The rest, more than 200 still housed at the naval base, are innocents who were "in the wrong place at the wrong time."

According to Wilkerson, not only did Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld KNOW that the majority of the so-called "enemy combatants" were innocent, they "fought efforts to address the situation, Wilkerson said, because ‘to have admitted this reality would have been a black mark on their leadership.’ "

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