[CitizensTruth] Bush's "Smoking Gun" Witness is Found Dead

[Daniel Stafford]

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> *Bush's 'Smoking Gun' Witness Found Dead*

> *IndictBushNow files Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to get to 

> bottom of story*

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> The cover-up of Bush-era crimes is taking a shocking but not 

> unexpected turn. A fateful move has been made and it is certain to 

> backfire.

> Powell

> /Colin Powell used al-Libi's tortured and knowingly fabricated 

> testimony to tell the United Nations that Saddam Hussein's government 

> was helping al-Qaeda develop weapons of mass destruction to kill 

> Americans. It was all a lie./

> *IndictBushNow.org is joining with the Partnership for Civil Justice 

> Fund and the ANSWER Coalition to demand that the truth be told. We 

> have filed a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) with the CIA, 

> Department of Defense, Department of State and other agencies to 

> reveal information in their possession about Libi's imprisonment, 

> torture, false testimony on Iraq and the circumstances of his death.* 

> To read a copy of the FOIA, *click this link* 

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> A prisoner who was horribly tortured in 2002 until he agreed - at the 

> demand of Bush torturers - to say that al-Qaeda was linked to Saddam 

> Hussein is suddenly dead. Several weeks ago, Human Rights Watch 

> investigators discovered the missing inmate and talked to him. He had 

> been secretly transferred by the administration to a prison in Libya 

> after having been held by the CIA both in secret "black hole prisons" 

> and in Egypt.

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> Under conditions of extreme torture, the prisoner, Ibn al-Sheikh 

> al-Libi, agreed in 2002 to supply the Bush-ordered interrogators what 

> they sought as a political cover for Bush's marketing of the pending 

> war of aggression against Iraq. Mr. Libi agreed to tell them whatever 

> they wanted in exchange for an end to the torture. The now famous 

> Torture Memos providing legal cover for the torture were written at 

> the same time starting in the summer of 2002.

>

> Libi's tortured and knowingly fabricated testimony was the source of 

> information used by Bush to sell the war to the U.S. Senate, and the 

> source for Colin Powell's bogus and lying presentation to the United 

> Nations in 2003.

>

> Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice are now running around saying that the 

> torture regime "protected the country from terrorist attack." *But the 

> torture was used for the personal political goals of Bush and Cheney: 

> namely, to sell their Iraq invasion to a very skeptical and 

> disbelieving country.

> *

> Having been discovered by human rights investigators two weeks ago, 

> Mr. Libi's story coincided with the release of the Torture Memos and 

> the growing clamor for criminal prosecutions of Bush officials.

>

> His testimony is the smoking gun that would reveal that the torture 

> regime was not for "national security" but for the personal political 

> aims of Bush and Cheney.

>

> He was Exhibit A in the indictment that alleges that tortured 

> confessions and the contrived legal justifications of torture set up 

> by Justice Department lawyers in July/August 2002 were central to the 

> launch of the war against Iraq.

>

> Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died and tens of thousands of 

> U.S. service members have either been killed or badly wounded in a war 

> that was based on lies fortified and promoted by the most sadistic 

> torture.

>

> Mr. Libi is suddenly dead.  A Libyan "newspaper source" says that his 

> death is an apparent suicide. His friends don't believe that.

>

> We are building a movement for the appointment of a Special 

> Prosecutor. This is not a political choice. It is a legal imperative. 

> Mr. Libi's death must be the first business of the investigation. When 

> other prisoners who had been kept at secret sites were sent to 

> Guantanamo, the Bush administration and the CIA intentionally kept Mr. 

> Libi from being part of that transfer. Mr. Libi was publicly stating 

> that the Iraq-al-Qaeda links attributed to him from his torture 

> sessions were not true.

>

> "Who was the beneficiary" from his death? Why was he spirited away by 

> the Bush administration to hidden foreign prisons after he recanted 

> his tortured testimony and revealed that he was forced to make false 

> statements about Iraq under torture?

>

> *IndictBushNow.org is joining with the Partnership for Civil Justice 

> Fund and the ANSWER Coalition to demand that the truth be told. We 

> have filed a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) with the CIA, 

> Department of Defense, Department of State and other agencies to 

> reveal information in their possession about Libi's imprisonment, 

> torture, false testimony on Iraq and the circumstances of his death.* 

> To read a copy of the FOIA, *click this link* 

> <http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=pziZNKNGHjAk8l3n7ouWWg..>.

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