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"Government Secrecy Is the Handmaiden of Government Abuse"On her final day on this trip to Guantánamo, Hina writes in Daily Kos about the secret and classified evidence that the government ostensibly withholds from the defense for "national security" purposes. Specifically, she writes about a secret document that was accidentally leaked to the press and human rights observers yesterday, which showed that Omar Khadr was not the only person who could have thrown the grenade that killed a U.S. soldier. So in this case, a cover-up was necessary for the government to rationalize its charges against Khadr:
Secrecy has been a constant theme with the Bush administration. From the NSA wiretapping program to outing CIA agents to keeping its unlawful extraordinary rendition program from judicial scrutiny, the administration uses secrecy as a tool for government abuse and protecting the American people. Protecting them from the truth, that is. Tags: Guantanamo Dispatch, Omar Khadr |
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