Según The Times George W. Bush (Presidente número 43 de los Estados Unidos de América) en, Donald Rumsfeld (Secretario de Defensa de Gerald Ford y, posteriormente, de George W. Bush) y Dick Cheney (Vicepresidente de Estados Unidos durante el mandato de George W. Bush) sabían que había cientos de ciudadanos del mundo inocentes en la prisión de Guantánamo. La cúpula del poder de Estados Unidos durante los años 2001-2009 decidió no liberar inmediatamente a los inocentes porque ello podría causar un daño irreparable a la imagen de la campaña anti-terrorista de Bush. Una declaración firmada por Lawrence Wilkerson, uno de los principales asesores de Colin Powell (Secretario de Estado durante el primer mandato de George W. Bush), acusa a los tres políticos de encubrimiento.
Colonel Wilkerson, who was General Powell’s chief of staff when he ran the State Department, (...) claimed that the former Vice-President and Defence Secretary knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees sent to Guantánamo in 2002 were innocent but believed that it was “politically impossible to release them”.
Colonel Wilkerson…claimed that the majority of detainees — children as young as 12 and men as old as 93, he said — never saw a US soldier when they were captured. He said that many were turned over by Afghans and Pakistanis for up to $5,000. Little or no evidence was produced as to why they had been taken.
He also claimed that one reason Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld did not want the innocent detainees released was because “the detention efforts would be revealed as the incredibly confused operation that they were”. This was “not acceptable to the Administration and would have been severely detrimental to the leadership at DoD [Mr Rumsfeld at the Defence Department]”.
El portavoz del ex presidente Bush ha declarado que no van a hacer comentarios, por parte del ex secretario de defensa Rumsfeld ha sido un antiguo asociado el que ha negado las acusaciones, mientras que el ex vicepresidente no ha respondido ante tales acusaciones.
Realmente no conozco a Wilkerson pero, sin aún creerme nada, me creo cualquier barbaridad que puedan decir de George W. Bush y su gobierno, sobre todo si tiene que ver con la seguridad nacional y el terrorismo.
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