CIA Censorship of Guantánamo Military Commissions? – Video

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CIA Censorship of Guantnamo Military Commissions?
To watch the full interview with Jess Bravin on Democracy Now!, visit owl.li Wall Street Journal reporter Jess Bravin describes how a courtroom audio feed was mysteriously cut during the Guantnamo Bay trial for the men accused of orchestrating 9/11. He has covered the military commissions at Guantnamo for 10 years. His book, "The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantnamo Bay," has just been published. JESS BRAVIN: "And what has characterized this project for its entire history has been conflict between the CIA and the Department of Defense over the access to evidence. And this again, given what happened later with the CIA and their secret prison network and so on, might be surprising, but it turns out, as least from my reporting and talking to CIA officials, is that they were quite comfortable with the existing pre-9/11 setup here in New York. In the Southern District of New York, they #39;re very experienced prosecutors and judges who deal with very sensitive cases, and the CIA had worked with them for years and was comfortable that they could handle very important, classified, national security evidence and still get their trials underway. The CIA had no involvement in setting up military commissions; did not know the military officers involved in them; did not have a high regard for a bunch of unknown, mid-level people, reservists and so forth; and was very uncooperative with military commissions all the way. Colonel Couch and other prosecutors frequently, trying to get ...

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