Eh.

Not to in any way detract from your excellent article (it doesn’t), but I don’t see how the Telegraph can be reporting that he was captured in Al Khaldan in February of 2002. I have it in my notes, and will now go find out where I got it, that NBC News reported him in captivity on January 4, 2002. There was no Guantanamo prison when he was captured, so if he went there, it was either somewhere other than the detention camp, or it was later.

Here is where I cited NBC News last year. I will look and find out where I got that. Note that even January 4th, which was not, as I recall, a date of capture but after it, was well before President Bush signed orders “exempting” anyone from the Geneva Conventions. So he is embarrassing and possibly damning on two counts: that his forced concoctions were used as a case for war, and — and this may be more prosecutable — that his case proves that the various memoes were after the fact, and not well reasoned legal opinions.

Also, not to nitpick again, but if the ICRC does an investigation, we won’t hear the results. They will be reported simultaneously to various levels of the governments involved, in strict confidence, right?

The interrogators were being threatened by Cheney and Rumsfeld to force one of these bastards read the script – or else!

BINGO

they KNEW there was no association and they told that to cheney, he said;

SO?