CIA Role a Mystery at Army Court-Martial

[Judi Lynn]

Jan. 22, 2006, 12:47AM
CIA Role a Mystery at Army Court-Martial
By JON SARCHE and DAN ELLIOTT Associated Press Writers
© 2006 The Associated Press

FORT CARSON, Colo. — The initials were spoken aloud only once all week, and then apparently by mistake. After this past week's testimony, any role the CIA had _ or didn't have _ in the interrogation of an Iraqi general who died in U.S. custody remains a tantalizing and mysterious backdrop to the court-martial of Army Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr.

The CIA is "the ghost at the banquet," said Eugene R. Fidell, an expert in military law who has been following the court-martial but doesn't know if the CIA was involved in the case.

"We're playing 'Hamlet' without Hamlet here," said Fidell, an attorney in private practice who teaches military law at American University in Washington. He also represented news organizations in their attempts to open pretrial hearings in Welshofer's prosecution.

Welshofer was convicted late Saturday of negligent homicide in the 2003 death of Republican Guard Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush at a detention camp in western Iraq.
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[HuffleClaw]

1. "And you didn't report it to the CIA?" Spinner asked...

...The attorney then stopped himself and quickly apologized to the judge."

ok, that is damned odd. but military 'justice' is anything but.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. The chance that the intelligence services were not DIRECTLY involved

in the interrogation of an Iraqi GENERAL are near-zero. Here is a shocking revelation: our mainstream media has totally dropped the ball on this case, refusing to ask the obvious questions about what happened here.