New Gitmo Revalation: Pentagon Directed Destruction of Evidence

The operation manual that the Pentagon gave interrogators directed them to, "destroy their written notes in case of being summoned to testify regarding alleged ill-treatment of detainees", seehere, here, and here.

In an affidavit signed by [Omar Khadr Defense Attorney] Kuebler, the manual is quoted as saying, "The mission has legal and political issues that may lead to interrogators being called to testify, keeping the number of documents with interrogation information to a minimum can minimize certain legal issues."

This flies in the face of every tenet of modern law and jurisprudence.

Ignoring the fact that Khadr was a 15 year old child at the time of the event, and should therefore be treated for trauma as a child soldier, the idea that the operations manual calls for destruction of evidence on the theory that it might prove inconvenient is outrageous.

The person who wrote this manual should be jailed, not just fired.