In another revealing and disturbing development, the former chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson, has suggested what is possibly as scandalous a deception as the false case Bush and Cheney made for invading Iraq. Colonel Wilkerson writes that in their zeal to prove a link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein during the months leading up to the Iraq war, one suspect held in Egypt, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, was water tortured until he falsely told the interrogators what they wanted to hear. That phony confession, which Wilkerson says was wrung from a broken man who simply wanted the torture to stop, was then used as evidence in Colin Powell’s infamous address to the United Nations shortly before the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Powell says that everything in his speech was vetted by the CIA and that Wilkerson’s allegation is only speculation. We’ll never know the full story - al-Libi died three weeks ago in a Libyan prison. A suicide. Or so they say. No wonder so many Americans clamor for a truth commission that will get the facts and put them on the record, just as “Torturing Democracy” has done. Then we can judge for ourselves. Bill Moyers ☀
Sunday 31 May 2009
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