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<h2><b><a href="http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/75832">Is the FBI
Providing Material Support for Terrorists?</a></b></h2><font size=3>By:
<a href="http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/author/youmayberight/">
youmayberight</a> Saturday October 9, 2010 8:01 pm <br>
<a href="http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/75832" eudora="autourl">
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/75832<br><br>
</a>[<i>Note: Minneapolis was the scene recently of FBI raids on the
homes of several antiwar activists. Along with others in Chicago, they
were subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury supposedly investigating
material support of foreign terrorist organizations.</i>]<br><br>
Dear Minneapolis Federal Bureau of Investigation:<br><br>
As you know from my previous communications to your office, I am
interested in accountability for those who have violated the Federal
Torture Statute, 18 U.S.C. Secs. 2340-2340A. I know you agree with this
goal because the FBI admirably refused to participate in the torture
policy that was put in place after September 11, 2001. <br><br>
However, your refusal to investigate those who may well be implicated in
this policy causes me some concern. First, we notified your office when
former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
who has basically confessed to conspiracy to torture, was in the area.
Nothing happened. We then informed you that Robert Delahunty, whose memo
advising that the Geneva Conventions did not apply may have been part of
a conspiracy to torture, lives and works in Minneapolis. Nothing
happened. Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq at
the time of the Abu Ghraib scandal, has said that that decision with
respect to the Geneva Conventions "unleashed the hounds of
hell." Finally, as you no doubt know, John Yoo, whose DOJ-renounced
"torture memos" and other admissions clearly implicate him in
such a conspiracy, was in town last week. Again, nothing happened.
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Here is my concern. There is widespread agreement that U.S.-committed
torture may well add to the ranks of terrorists. Former Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld asked the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
whether we were creating more terrorists than we were killing. There is
no doubt he included in the causes of that scenario the publicity about
the torture we had committed. President Obama has refused to release
additional photographs of Abu Ghraib atrocities because he fears it would
aid the terrorists. Many experts across the political spectrum inside
and outside the government, former and current agents in the CIA and the
FBI agree that torture aids the terrorists. <br><br>
Equally likely is that our refusal to investigate and prosecute those we
know have committed or conspired to commit torture lends material support
to foreign terrorist organizations, which is a violation of 18 U.S.C.
Sec. 2339B. I encourage you to remedy this situation by instituting
investigations of those who were engaged in our "systematic regime
of torture," as Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba called it. Otherwise, I
fear you may find yourselves subpoenaed to appear before the Grand Jury.
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Sincerely, <br><br>
Chuck Turchick<br><br>
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