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Feds Battle to Keep Rendition Case Under Wraps

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(Newser) – The Obama administration is fighting to keep details secret in the case of a former Guantanamo detainee who says he was tortured, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. A San Francisco court has ruled Binyam Mohamed and four others can sue the company they allege flew them to secret CIA prisons—but the government has asked it to reconsider on the grounds of national security.

Mohamed, a British resident freed without charge after seven years in US custody, says he was tortured in a secret prison in Morocco and at a US base in Afghanistan before being sent to Guantanamo. His lawyers have been threatened with jail on contempt of court charges for writing a letter to President Obama asking him to release the evidence of their client's treatment. A British lawyer testified last month that Hillary Clinton threatened to halt intelligence-sharing with Britain if that country's High Court disclosed details of the case.

Binyam Mohamed says he spent months in a US prison in Afghanistan, where he was shackled in uncomfortable positions for days on end and blasted with constant loud music.
Binyam Mohamed says he spent months in a US prison in Afghanistan, where he was shackled in uncomfortable positions for days on end and blasted with constant loud music.   (AP Photo/Reprieve, files)
Protesters demonstrate for the release of Binyam Mohamed, a former British resident and detainee at Guantanamo Bay, outside the US embassy in central London earlier this year.
Protesters demonstrate for the release of Binyam Mohamed, a former British resident and detainee at Guantanamo Bay, outside the US embassy in central London earlier this year.   (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Binyam Mohamed covers his face as he leaves RAF Northolt in west London in February after nearly seven years in US custody.
Binyam Mohamed covers his face as he leaves RAF Northolt in west London in February after nearly seven years in US custody.   (AP Photo/ Sang Tan)
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divetrader
Aug 10, 09 6:36 AM CDT
He should be allowed to sue the CIA and the rendition company for millions. Reply
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UrUndertaker
Aug 10, 09 7:09 AM CDT
Yes he should and I honestly want to know what the hell GW Bush and Dick Cheney ordered done that Obama is ashamed or afraid to have known in public sectors. They hold a man 7 years then release him because he was not guilty, they torture him because his skin color was brown and not the powerful white. This entire matter is disgusting and not the America I was taught as a child, Reply
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JonmarkP
Aug 10, 09 8:45 AM CDT
To the moneyed elite who have owned the country since Reagan, Bush's greatest crime was that he pulled back the curtain on how those in power really work. Now Obama is desperately trying to put the curtain back, but we can't unsee what we've seen. It's sickening. I'm ashamed of the country I was born in, served in the military and support with my taxes. Reply
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tazsugs
Aug 10, 09 10:31 AM CDT
im sorry you feel that way......you should move to a better country..........which one would that be????
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kokuaguy
Aug 10, 09 2:51 PM CDT
I wouldn't abandon my family because I thought they were doing something wrong, taz. I'd stay at the table and keep speaking truth to power. Progress is being made, though the pace may seem glacial at times.
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